On Monday 04 December 2006 17:40, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 09:15 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:06 +0000, Leo wrote: > > > It is very confusing to newbies. We shouldn't make totem the universal > > > player. > > > > Here here! Amen! Can we have a halleluah?? It's been hated for a long > > time, so I have no clue why it continues to be pushed onto us. I guess > > we need to raise the volume a bit. Ric > > Halleluah? :) > > I've never had any luck with totem, even with the proper stuff > installed. I don't think this is restricted to licensing issues, > notwithstanding further branches on this thread. > This is for those who don't have to deal with USA law. :-) Last week someone kindly told me about gst-fluendo-mp3-ipp. This is a proprietary package, which has to be bought from http://shop.fluendo.com/ at a price of £0.00. I installed this and totem is suddenly able to play my .avi files. I haven't tried many other formats, but I'm told it can handle most common ones. Anne
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