Totem on FC3

[Michael A. Peters]

On 12/01/2004 12:07:37 PM, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I am aware of the fact the totem shipped with FC3 uses Gstreamer  
> instead
> of xine .. now, has anyone had any success using it? It's pretty  
> useless
> by itself since it can't even handle MPEG files .. so I got some  
> plugins
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> http://mpeters.us/linux/fc3_gstreamer.php
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> with these plugins in place totem just keeps segfaulting..

I believe the problem is with gstreamer-ffmpeg
Either that rpm, or one if its dependencies, I'm guessing was compiled  
with an athlon optimization that Intel doesn't like - of people who  
have let me know my rpm doesn't work for them, so far that's a common  
factor - intel cpu.

I don't have a intel box to check my suspicion, but I did a clean  
install on a test partition on my AMD box and it worked flawlessly  
(well, there was jumpiness in the progress bar, but I watch the video -  
not the progress bar ;)

After the weekend, I'm going to read the configure output and the  
readmes with gstreamer-ffmpeg and see if there was a flag I should have  
used to turn off cpu dependent optimizations.

I'm going to *try* and obtain a decent PII or PIII box to test my  
suspicion.