On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:16:44 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 03:57 +0000, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:53:42 -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. >> > >> > -- >> > Cheers, Gene >> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> > message by Gene Heskett are: >> > Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. >> > >> >> Did you just fall off the turnip truck? > > Did you? > > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Is this answer for me, or for the OP? How does recommending mplayer contradict what's being said in the multimedia howto? It just states that totem does not play dvds (which we know), and that if you want a worse player, install xine. I'm not contradicting that, people should feel free to go with xine.
