On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:22:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > Strange, mine works flawlessly, better than cnn. That is, mplayer plays the videos embedded in firefox (1.5x). Do this: Hover the mouse over the link with the clip to see the url at the bottom of firefox. Then run mplayer directly: mplayer http://news.nationalgeographic... Does that work?
