DVD Player program

[Matt Galvin]

On 8/14/05, Matt Galvin <matt.t.galvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/13/05, Ben Miller <wheelscribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Matt Galvin wrote:
> > > I personally use totem. It comes installed with ubuntu by default and
> > > works really well. You will want to use the xine backend for totem
> > > which you can install like so:
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get install totem-xine
> >
> >
> > Installing totem-xine (on my system, at least) forces a removal of
> > gstreamer.
> 
> It replaces totem-gstreamer not the gstreamer libraries themselves,
> other apps like rythmbox still use gstreamer regardless of what totem
> is using.
> 
> > Are the two mutually exclusive?
> 
> Yes. They can not both be installed at the same time. The binary app
> are both "totem" but one is complied against gstreamer and the other
> against xine-libs.
> 
> > Does it matter which one is used by Totem and other multimedia apps?
> 
> They both do the same thing

(for arguments sake, obviously they are different and have their own
pros and cons)

> but xine is more mature than gstreamer at
> the moment. Various apps use one or the other, and some use different
> ones still.
> 
> Matt
>