On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 23:21 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:10:49PM -0700, 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? > > Don't be a prick. I think he meant what he said and said what he meant. > Save for a couple of oggs, I haven't been able to persuade Totem to play > anything it is configured to play. Having fought the same fight with Totem, > I understand clearly what he meant -- it won't play the multimedia files > and disks I've fed it, libdvdcss or not. Worse, it fails to tell you > what about the media it can't handle. That's worse than useless. ---- but the vague part was not knowing what types of media he was trying to play. ---- > > > 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. > > WTF is an "unlicensed version of libdvdcss"? Every version of libdvdcss > is licensed, under the GPL to be specific. ---- but not licensed by the motion picture industry and of questionable legality to possess or distribute in the United States. Craig
