Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
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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
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
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Ha ha! ya true...totem-xine is really good...actually if every codec
becomes opensource then that would be possible soon :-) ...Then people
would totally shift to linux instead of windows!!!
