On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:55, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >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? > Probably both. Craig as we all know can be abrasive, but then so can I when things go in the crapper. >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. well, I dunno about its not playing dvd's, in fact I can't recall that its played anything I've clicked on in firefox since installing FC6. But, I just discovered that ALL of the /usr/lib/java* directories are empty, and there is no libjava.so.whatever link in the plugins dir, nor any info on java in the about:plugins screeeeeeeeeeen. :-) That's intentional, its a long report, see my previous post. -- 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.
