Missing WAV decoder

[Christopher L Tubbs II]

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

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