Totem=noshow

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:22:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 04 December 2006 10:50, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:13:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Monday 04 December 2006 00:58, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:25 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Craig White wrote:
>>>>> > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>> >> Greetings all;
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> 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.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ----
>>>>> > 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, it takes *far* more than that. Totem as shipped in FC is a
>>>>> broken piece of garbage that attempts to play everything - and can
>>>>> actually play almost nothing. It achieves the remarkable status of
>>>>> actually being *worse* than nothing at all.
>>>>
>>>>I use xine from livna and install all it's extras as "yum -y
>>>>--enablerepo livna install xine*" should get you all the goodies for
>>>> Dvd playback. Otherwise, mplayer. Ric
>>>
>>> I wasn't specifically trying to play a dvd, I'm just trying to get
>>> weblinks to play.  ISTR the only video I've seen play here came from
>>> youtube, crappy stuff generally.  Not even 8mm movie quality.  But
>>> then you may not ever remember seeing one of those, being a youngster
>>> & all that. :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers, Gene
>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>>> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
>>> message by Gene Heskett are:
>>> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>>
>>For youtube and google video you need the flash player. For things like
>>CNN, mplayer works beautifully. The nice thing about mplayer is that it
>>can pretend to be the windows mplayer, so you can view with it
>>(some/most) video from sites that wouldn't let you view their media
>> unless you were in windows. Maybe other players can do that too, I
>> don't know.
> 
> I seem to be in deeper do-do than that, this site causes ff to exit;
> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061130-meteorite.html>
> Then click on one of the movies, ff goes away.  No reported error.
> 

Strange, mine works flawlessly, better than cnn. That is, mplayer plays
the videos embedded in firefox (1.5x). 

Do this: 

Hover the mouse over the link with the clip to see the url at the bottom
of firefox. Then run mplayer directly:

mplayer http://news.nationalgeographic...

Does that work?