Missing WAV decoder
Christopher L Tubbs II
ctubbsii at emich.edu
Mon Apr 28 14:29:40 UTC 2008
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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