Totem any time soon?

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:33 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> I agree with this sentiment.  Totem-gstreamer just failed to play most
> of my video outright.  Switching to Totem-xine widened the playable
> files, but led to bizarre errors like "audio device is busy" when
> encountering AC3 audio.  Using xine/gxine/whatever I can play all of
> my video files--even the AC3-encoded ones--with automagic downmixing
> to stereo where necessary, etc. 

Why is this a bizarre error - you have a non-hardware-mixing sound card
and the sound server is blocking the audio device, so only apps that use
the sound server can output audio.

Lee