On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 04:01 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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? It's not the player so much as the codecs. Even the usual replacements can't play the usually unplayable files without adding un-free codecs. Totem can be made to play those files, but it is such a basic lowly-featured player that it's probably not good enough for everyone, anyway. But, on the other hand, a simple player is what some people want. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
