On Monday 04 December 2006 10:50, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:13:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 04 December 2006 00:58, Ric Moore wrote: >>>On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:25 -0800, 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. >>> >>>I use xine from livna and install all it's extras as "yum -y >>>--enablerepo livna install xine*" should get you all the goodies for >>> Dvd playback. Otherwise, mplayer. Ric >> >> I wasn't specifically trying to play a dvd, I'm just trying to get >> weblinks to play. ISTR the only video I've seen play here came from >> youtube, crappy stuff generally. Not even 8mm movie quality. But >> then you may not ever remember seeing one of those, being a youngster >> & all that. :-) >> >> -- >> 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. > >For youtube and google video you need the flash player. For things like >CNN, mplayer works beautifully. The nice thing about mplayer is that it >can pretend to be the windows mplayer, so you can view with it >(some/most) video from sites that wouldn't let you view their media > unless you were in windows. Maybe other players can do that too, I > don't know. I seem to be in deeper do-do than that, this site causes ff to exit; <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061130-meteorite.html> Then click on one of the movies, ff goes away. No reported error. I have unpacked the jdk-1_5_0_10-linus.bin package, which auto installed itself in /usr/java. OOo finds it and apparently uses it as is. So I made a link to the plugin and it shows up in FF's about:plugins, but another site, <http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/281104unmistakablecharges.htm> which did display the still image, now causes it to exit before fully drawing the page. -- 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.
