How do I get totem + gstreamer-ffmpeg working?

Andre Costa blueser at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 22:24:09 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 19:15, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On 08/25/2009 03:43 AM, Andre Costa wrote:
>
> > I know Fedora can't be shipped with proprietary codecs -- and I do
> > support the reasons behind this. But it does provide an "automatic
> > retrieval" of such codecs (through PackageKit), this is the part that I
> > referred to as broken (not necessarily due to PackageKit itself).
>
> Yes, a package in RPM Fusion broke it. Note that the codecs are not
> really proprietary. They are merely patent encumbered and also that
> automatic retrieval won't work out of the box. You have to enable a
> third party repo like RPM Fusion that provides the codecs.

Right, thks for correcting me. It's just that enabling RPMFusion feels
pretty "natural" to me already, because I use their Nvidia drivers =)
Andre
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