How do I get totem + gstreamer-ffmpeg working?

[Andre Costa]

Hi Markus,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 13:19, Markus Kesaromous <remotestar at live.com>wrote:

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> ________________________________
> > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:04:05 -0300
> > From: blueser at gmail.com
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: How do I get totem + gstreamer-ffmpeg working?
> >
> > Hi,
> > it's been 1 month since I installed F11, and I never could get totem to
> work with proprietary codecs which require gstreamer-ffmpeg. Totem does know
> it has to download proprietary codecs (nice), but doesn't recognize I
> already have it installed and keeps asking me to (re)install it, and then it
> fails saying it is (duh) already installed :-/
> >
> > According to Fedora's Bugzilla the problem lies on RPMFusion:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513908#c2
> >
> > According to RPMFusion it is fixed on the version on
> rpmfusion-free-updates-testing:
> > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627#c2
> >
> > However, I installed gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.8-1.fc11.x86_64 from
> rpmfusion-free-updates-testing and the problem still exists:
> > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764#c3
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> > (maybe I need to install something else from testing repo)
> > So, if someone managed to workaround this, please let me know, it will be
> much appreciated. Also, if someone could actually fix this so that it "just
> works" as it was supposed to do, please, please, do it. It will be even more
> appreciated ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andre
>
> Hi Andre,
> There are so many media players that I do not see why you want
> to even bother to solve the problem with a crappy and lame media player
> like totem. There are these players I use:
> mplayer, kmplayer, smplayer, xine, gxine, gnome-mplayer (aka gmplayer ???),
> and Realplayer for Linux. And for audio only, amarok,  audacious, to name
> just a couple.
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> I agree, it's not that I *need* to use totem (actually so far gnome-mplayer
has been a superb replacement for totem), it just feels silly that it
doesn't work considering it is the default player, and considering all the
effort that has been put into the automatic retrieval of proprietary codecs.
This makes life hard for the first-timers and newbies, and therefore makes
Fedora look bad :-(
But thks anyway for the tips =)
Regards,
Andre
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