Re: Openoffice media player

[Klaasjan Brand <fedora kjb dds nl>]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 11:04 +0200, Patrick wrote:

> > A good place to look for this is the gstreamer website
> > (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/) Add the necessary yum repo
> > information and then install those extra bits that gstreamer doesn't
> > come with on fedora.
> 
> Do I understand you correctly that the lack of certain gstreamer plugins
> is the reason why Totem on my up2date FC4T2 box won't play any video
> file (mpg, avi, wmv, mov)?

Totem as shipped by Fedora never included the capability to playback
those formats. Maybe you replaced it with a version using Xine as a
back-end?

> >   I'm using the FC3 repo on the gstreamer site with
> > FC4T1 (updated to current) and it's working quite well.
> [snip]
> 
> Exactly which packages did you install from the gstreamer yum repo? I'd
> love to get this functionality back like I had with FC3 and mplayer.

You can try the gstreamer-ffmpeg module (not packaged in an easy way
afaik) or replace Totem with Totem-xine. (see rpm.livna.org)

Klaasjan