Missing WAV decoder

[Rahul Sundaram]

David Nielsen wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/4/28 Christopher L Tubbs II <ctubbsii at emich.edu 
> <mailto:ctubbsii at emich.edu>>:
> 
>     Why does the pre-release Fedora 9 not have a simple WAV decoder? I
>     can't even play simple PCM files with totem (or any other media
>     player, except command-line 'play')
> 
> 
> I've noticed that with F9 for some deeply annoying reason totem defaults 
> to using the xine backend, and the totem-backend selector appears to do 
> nothing, thus I have to start it from the commandline every time to get 
> gstreamer use. 

Apparently this is a side effect of a upgrade from a previous release. 
In a fresh installation, according to the spec, gstreamer has a higher 
priority than xine backend. If you have done a fresh installation and 
see this issue, a bug report should be filed. Meanwhile you can remove 
the totem-xine sub package.

Rahul