Totem any time soon?

[Ernst Persson]

Why don't you install totem-xine and win32codecs and live happily everafter,
with a media player that plays *exactly* the same files as gxine, but
works much better and doesn't crash!?

Regards
/Ernst Persson

On 2/21/06, Bonilla, Alejandro <alejandro.bonilla at hp.com> wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance in the subject. Yes. It might be that plain
> restricted totem is better against restricted gxine. But once you
> install win32codecs, and the correct stuff universe or so, you get a
> much more decent application that does't crash. If I try to open a wmv
> or avi, is most likely for it to not be played with totem, and then
> sometimes it just gives the visualization instead of the video which is
> something Win Media Player does. I _know_ it shows it lacks of a codec,
> but then I try opening it with mplayer or gxine and then it works.
>
> So, do we talk about things being more useful and painless or what?
>
> Install a clean Ubuntu, now add gxine.
>
> Start playing videos, which one will play most of them? totem? gxine?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Alejandro Bonilla
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