One other thing I just thought of. For some reason, video on my laptop is weird. I can't play a stream of videos using XINE or gmplayerm, but I can if I use the cmdline mplayer only. Totem is a complete wash on my system. I don't know if this is because of xorg or something else. I haven't figured it out yet. I posted a question about it here, but nobody responded. Neither did the XINE or mplayer people. Oh well.