totem movie player, plays nothing?

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 10:18 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can make Totem pick up the same, or why it's
> even the default player? 

You really should read this:
http://ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats

The short answer for Totem is:
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
(That will remove the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, but do not worry about
that)
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Dennis K.
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