On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Abhishek Rane wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Abhishek Rane wrote: > > > > > > > Try removing the original totem that came with fedora 8 and installing > > > totem-xine its great and it plays everything > > > yum remove totem > > > then do > > > yum install totem-xine totem-xine-plparser libdvdcss libdvdnav > > > xine-lib-extras-nonfree > > > that's it ! > > > > > > > this seems to have been the advice for quite some time now WRT fedora, > > so one has to ask the question -- why does fedora continue to include > > such a fundamentally useless player that lasts only as long as it > > takes someone to replace it after installation with something that > > actually works? > > > > rday > > > > > > ======================================================================== > > Robert P. J. Day > > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry > > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > > > http://crashcourse.ca > > ======================================================================== > > > It is not a useless player if you consider open formats of audio and > video..Fedora is ompletely free and opensource..Its for pure > opensource lovers for others there are distros like Ubuntu and OSs > like windows also AFAIK Ubuntu too comes with totem by default ! > (correct me if I am wrong) ...Totem is the default movieplayer in > GNOME. totem-xine basically gives totem the ability to play xine > based videos.And the other options like libdvdcss etc are just the > codecs to play videos which are licensed. Totem is very useful if > you are into open codecs as totem has features like TV-OUT,LIRC > support et al. Personally i prefer Totem over vlc which is a little > difficult (for me) to work with as the keyboard shortcuts of totem > just blend with gnome. ok, granted i might have been a bit hyperbolic. but it *is* amusing to count the number of times someone posts, complaining about how totem doesn't play a particular format, to which the inevitable response is, "dump it and replace it with totem-xine." rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
