Totem playing .avi's?

[Ali Helmy]

On 31/03/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Ali Helmy wrote:
> > On 31/03/06, *Jim Cornette* <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
> > <mailto:fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Jeff Vian wrote:
> >      > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 17:26 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> >      >> On 3/30/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:alihelmy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >      >>>>> When I play .avi files in the Totem player (default player
> >     for gnome) i
> >      >>>>> only get sound, and no video... so is there some codecs
> >     perhaps i need?
> >      >>>> http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html#Core5
> >      >>> Ok, so after I installed the livna repo... now what?
> >      >> yum install totem-xine ?
> >      >>
> >      > Totem-xine conflicts with totem.
> >      > need to do
> >      >
> >      > yum remove totem
> >      > yum install totem-xine
> >      >
> >      > (or at least I had to do so with FC4.)
> >      >
> >      >> Paul
> >      >>
> >      >
> >
> >     Thanks Paul,
> >     Your suggestion still applies for FC5.
> >     The conflict still exists between totem and totem-xine. I also
> >     needed to
> >     remove rhythmbox in order to remove totem.
> >
> >     Jim
> >
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> >
> > Ok, so i removed totem, and installed totem-xine... now problem is, when
> > i start totem-zine, it loads up the main window for a sec, then the
> > program shuts down...
> >
> > what is going on?
> >
> > --
> > A. Helmy
> >
>
> I typed xine in a shell and noticed a message regarding having an older
> version of gnome-screensaver installed. I have no gnome-screensaver
> installed.
>
> Run totem from a terminal and it should give you some information as to
> why it is failing.
> I am playing a DVD burned off of a pioneer recorder using DVD-RW discs
> and no encryption. Are you trying an AVI file? I have none of them
> knowingly.
>
> Jim
>
>
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Ah well, I got tired of this mess... I dumped totem and xine as a whole, and
i switched to mplayer :\

--
A. Helmy
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