playing DVDs with totem

[Abhishek Rane]

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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>> 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!!!