On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 01:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > OK, installing those extra rpms make totem work. But that leaves us with > > two questions: > > 1. Why did the displaying of the videos work until yesterday? > > I have no idea. I have no idea either. But something is wrong with the uopdates it seems to me. > > > 2. If these rpms are necessary to make totem work why are they not > > installed as dependencies when totem is installed? > > By default, Fedora includes support for open and non patent encumbered > formats via gstreamer and xine. The additional codecs are included in > other third party repositories and they are optional. Fedora cannot > include them for well known reasons as I have explained in length to you > before. All of that would be fine if you did not tell me to install rpms supplied by Fedora to make totem work. I understand why you can not supply propriety codecs but why can't the rpms you told me to install be suppled by default. They are not propriety. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines