At 09:28 PM 4/17/06 -0700, Chris Grau wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:10:25PM -0700, Lief Hendrickson wrote:
> I can't get movie email attachments to play using totem movie player
> on Fedora. The attachments are wmv and mpg. I received the
> attachments in Evolution email application. totem movie player is the
> application of choice when clicking on the attachment name in
> Evolution. Totem opens to a blank screen then displays an error
> message saying it can't read the file. Any ideas on how to play wmv
> and mpg files? Thanks.
There are a couple of things to be done to get Totem to play these types
of files. First, do you use the Livna repository for Fedora? If not,
you'll need to set it up (I'm assuming Fedora Core 5, but there exists
documentation for other releases[0]):
I am using Fedora now but do plan to update.
# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
Second, you'll need to scrap the version of Totem that comes with Fedora
(which uses the GStreamer back end) and replace it with the version that
uses the Xine back end (which will support the Win32 codecs):
# yum remove totem
# yum install totem-xine
Finally, you'll need to install the Win32 codecs[1] to view the videos.
A little Googling can turn up RPMs for these. I've rolled my own RPM
for convenience.
One caveat, however. I believe these codecs will only work on an x86
box. If you're using x86_64, they may not work. I only have old
hardware, so it works for me.
[0] http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html
[1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/codecs.html
It's a Pentium 4. will this be a problem in using the codecs?
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