Getting totem to play divx / xvid

Somatik ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Fri Oct 22 11:33:23 UTC 2004


Seems that ubuntu standard install chooses  totem-gstreamer, i installed totem-xine and all works as it should right now.

fdb at ubuntu:/etc $ sudo apt-get install totem
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  [b:95eb9d8eb9]totem-xine[/b:95eb9d8eb9]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  [b:95eb9d8eb9]totem-gstreamer[/b:95eb9d8eb9] ubuntu-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  totem totem-xine
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

hope this helps you out, i do have a problem playing mpeg files, i only get a blue screen. But playing the file in [b:95eb9d8eb9]gxine[/b:95eb9d8eb9] works as it should




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