On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:06 +0000, Leo wrote: > 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. ---- it seems to work fine with the open source compatible media formats so in that sense, it's not really broken. When you want to play proprietary media formats, you need a player and codecs suitable for the purpose which is where mplayer/xine/vlc will do a much better job. Craig
