On Monday, 4 Dec 2006, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, 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. > > Oh, it takes *far* more than that. Totem as shipped in FC is a broken > piece of garbage that attempts to play everything - and can actually > play almost nothing. It achieves the remarkable status of actually > being *worse* than nothing at all. +1 It is very confusing to newbies. We shouldn't make totem the universal player. -- Leo
