On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 22:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:10, Craig White wrote: > >On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings all; > >> > >> What can I replace totem with that will work? > >> > >> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do > >> not tell you what it can't play. > > > >---- > >you mean kind of like the vague information that I see here? > > > >Just taking a wild ass guess at your problem, I would guess that you > >need to install an unlicensed version of libdvdcss so you can decrypt > >encrypted commercial DVD movies. > > > >Craig > > Well, if it would tell me what sort of a file it won't play instead of > just showing the files hash name in the cache, I could be a little > clearer about it. > > In the meantime I've nuked totem & all its dependencies, and installed all > the stuff for vlc and mplayer. But just now, after verifying I had a > list of plugins for just about every format I could imagine and about 6 > printed pages long, I clicked on a video in a link I'd followed off > slashdot about the canuck meteorite having stuff in it older than the > sun, and firefox simply went away. This install included quicktime, > realplayer9, everything mplayer can do and everything that vlc has > plugins to do, which appears to be quite extensive. > > I'm going to run ldconfig to refresh things after all that installation, > and restart firefox from the console, just to see if it will repeat, and > if so, leave an error message behind other than the single > word 'segfault' which is, you'll have to admit, real fscking informative. > > Nope, clicking on the blood diamonds story opens a small window in the > middle of the screen window like its going to play the video, draws some > text around it, then in 1/2 second I'm looking at the console I started > firefox from, and its totally devoid of any clue as to why firefox quit. > > ======================= > [root@coyote ~]# ldconfig > [root@coyote ~]# firefox > [root@coyote ~]# > ======================= > > So how exactly does one go about troubleshooting this when clues are made > of unobtainium? > > Many thanks for any usefull info from anyone on how to fix this. Don't waste any more time on Totem, it's crap. Go with Ogle; the gui is able to use the dvd menus much better than alot of others I've seen. BTW, you are not the only one having trouble with totem. FYI: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/x192.html Excerpt: ---------------------------------------------------------- FC5 ships the GNOME project's official video player, totem. Unfortunately, it won't play DVDs. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-January/msg01239.html The symptom is an error popup that says "Totem was not able to play this disc. No reason", but the problem is actually a known bug in gstreamer-0.10. ------------------------------------------------------------- LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
