On Fri, June 22, 2007 11:33 am, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > I've never seen totem work, first on fc4, and now on fc7. > > On fc7, upon trying to play a DVD movie, it gives a seemingly useful > message about needing ~some~ plugin, telling me to install the plugin, > and then restart totem. But it gives me no clue how to get or install > the plugin. It doesn't even mention what plugin is needed, just: > > Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the > appropriate plugins to handle it. > Please install the necessary plugins and restart Totem to be able to > play this media. > > I found *no* options regarding plugins in the menu. The help is useless > in this regard as I didn't see *any* mention of plugins *anywhere*. In > the help, even the link for gnome-feedback doesn't work. > > Doing a search online for "totem plugin" yields a flood of how to get or > how to do a totem plugin for mozilla. > > How do I get plugins for totem? Which one do I need? > >
It may well be referring to mpeg codecs which are not open source, and thus don't ship with RH. If it's just movies, I prefer xine which is a mature program. Plug-ins I don't know ... -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
