Re: Totem=noshow

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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


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