Totem=noshow

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 09:42 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Craig, you are being purposely difficult, I've made it plain several times 
> that what I'm concerned with is the ability to play the videos in any 
> link I might run into off of a site such as /. or cnn.news.
> 
> You keep treating me like a damned pie-rat that wants to make wholesale 
> copies of a popular movie & hawk them on a street corner or flea market.  
> The only copying I might do is a fair use copy, like putting it on my 
> hard drive and the dvd back in its shell on the shelf.  But I have not 
> done that to the half dozen movies I do own on dvd yet.  So stuff it 
> someplace dark please, I'm tired of the accusations.
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this was your original post...

> What can I replace totem with that will work?
> 
> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do
> not 
> tell you what it can't play.

this was my reply...

> you mean kind of like the vague information that I see here?
> 
> Just taking a wild ass guess at your problem, I would guess that you
> need to install an unlicensed version of libdvdcss so you can decrypt
> encrypted commercial DVD movies.

you can interpret my reply any way that you wish I would suppose but
given the information presented in the question, I am certain that it
was an appropriate and helpful answer.

I agree that you clarified your problem 4 hours later - probably after
getting a number of replies from others who were similarly unable to
deduce what you were trying to accomplish any more than I could.

The follow up post to which you are replying here was a reply to Kurt
Wall. It had no consideration about what you intended to do with
libdvdcss as that clearly is none of my concern. It wasn't directed
towards you at all so the inferences that you have drawn concerning your
activities were clearly your own.

If I had a complaint to make about your questions/posting, they would be
about being vague and not specific and the fact that you seem to find it
too easy to merely ask the list the questions that get asked at least
every other week and don't bother searching the archives - just like
your follow up questions about rebuilding rpm db. I would expect that
someone who has been on the list as long as you have and using RHL/FC as
long as you have, that you would know how to ask specific questions and
demonstrate what research that you have done to solve the problem.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Craig