Re: Totem

[Jim Hartley <xjimh cfl rr com>]

Not sure about Totem, I use Mplayer for audio and video. I had to 
configure an additional repository, Livna, to get plugins for the 
IP-encumbered formats -- once I did that everything was easy.

Jim Hartley

Graeme Nichols wrote:
> Hello Todd,
>
> Thank you very much for the information and the link.
>
> I should be OK now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Graeme.
>
>
> On 19/06/07, *Todd Zullinger * <tmz pobox com <mailto:tmz pobox com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Graeme Nichols wrote:
>     > I am running FC6 and for the first time since I was running RH6 I
>     > want to play videos and audio files.
>
>     How do you survive without audio? :)
>
>     > My experience with sound and linux has been very negative so I have
>     > never bothered and consequently I have no knowledge of the subject.
>
>     It's not so bad.  Patents and other proprietary things make it more
>     difficult than it should be though.
>
>     > In FC6 Totem seems to be a front end for gstreamer and all the
>     necessary
>     > gstreamer bits and pieces have been installed.
>     >
>     > Can someone please tell me which video and audio formats that
>     Totem can
>     > play?
>
>     That depends entirely on what gstreamer plugins you have installed.
>     By default, Fedora doesn't come with any plugins that have patent or
>     license issues (e.g. mp3, wmv, etc)
>
>     > Which video and audio formats it cannot play and if there are
>     > plugins available that will enable Totem to play them?
>     >
>     > Two that I have discovered it cannot play are mp3 and wmv saying
>     > that possibly a plugin is needed.
>     >
>     > I cannot find any information on plugins, how to obtain them, how to
>     > install them etc. anywhere.
>
>     Google turns up numerous links when searching for fedora totem mp3.
>     Here's one that seems reasonable:
>
>     http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=b2db943185e286a3a3e7be489bd651cb&t=100206&highlight=totem+mp3
>     <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=b2db943185e286a3a3e7be489bd651cb&t=100206&highlight=totem+mp3>
>
>     HTH,
>
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