Getting totem to play divx / xvid

[Michel De Gouveia]

Somatik wrote:

>Seems that ubuntu standard install chooses  totem-gstreamer, i installed totem-xine and all works as it should right now.
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>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.
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>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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If you install xine-ui, you don't have blue screen anymore in totem-xine 
and xine-ui.