Missing WAV decoder

[David Nielsen]

2008/4/28 Christopher L Tubbs II <ctubbsii at emich.edu>:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> It appears that you are correct. Based on your info, I did a yum remove
> \*totem\* and then reinstalled it one at a time. I don't understand why the
> yum update didn't work correctly, though.
>
> Rainman


Would this need a note on the F9 issues page?
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