On Monday 18 December 2006 19:14, Reg Clemens wrote: > I have never succeeded in playing video clips from CNN. > > The most recent error message has been > > Totem could not play 'mms > > no URI handler implemented for 'mms' > > Are such handlers available anywhere? > Generally that message comes when you are missing some of the non-free codecs. The usual advice seems to be to download livna's mplayer package, together with all the related codec packages. IIRC that is done by 'yum install mplayer*' when the livna repo is enabled. IOW, I think all the packages you need start with 'mplayer' > Previously I was getting messages that the sound system was already in > use (it wasnt) and that totem needed a sound mixer. > > I dont have the exact error message for that one, but any help there would > be nice too,- Im sure that if I make it thru the above error, the old one > will reappeaer. Don't know about that one, but if you are using KDE you might like to look in the Control Center for Sounds & Multimedia > Sound System and check that Auto-suspend if idle after: is set to 1 second. aRts has a nasty habit of holding on to sound systems unless you keep that value small. Anne
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