Newbie trying to see VDC and DVD with Totem.

[Brian Durant]

Hi again,

I am trying to get Totem to behave so that I can watch VCDs and DVDs.
I have skimmed through the various HowTos, FAQs, etc. and I believe
that I have all of the codecs downloaded properly from the alternative
repositories. Totem just doesn't seem to be able to do anything. I
have looked at the add proprietary plug-ins section of Totem prefs and
don't find anything in there. Do I have to symlink or navigate to the
win32 codecs, gstreamer et.al. or is there another way to do this? I
know someone is going to post with the suggestion that I try Mplayer,
but I don't have a virgin system, I don't want to upgrade to Hoary yet
and after the debacle I have had with trying different CD burners to
burn an audio CD and none of them as of yet being able to do anything,
I would prefer to start slowly with Totem and try to get that to work
before moving on to anything else.

Cheers,

Brian