playing DVDs with totem

[Robert P. J. Day]

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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> 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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