Newbie trying to see VDC and DVD with Totem.

[ulrich steffens]

as far as i remember its safe to remove ubuntu-desktop.
i had totem-xine in warty up and running and had no problems removing
ubuntu-desktop. BUT if youre going to upgrad to hoary one day, you
should install it again.

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- ulrich
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On Di, 2005-02-15 at 09:58 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
>Synaptic wants to remove totem-gstreamer and ubuntu-desktop. Can't the
>two live side by side? If not, is there a totem-gstreamer dummy out
>there so that I can keep the ubuntu-desktop? I had to do this once
>before with OOo as I have Star Office 7 installed. Unfortunately, I
>can't remember the instructions for creating a dummy.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Brian
>
>On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:27:08 +1100, Lex Hider <Lex.Hider at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can't comment on VCDs, but you should be able to watch DVDs if you use
>> totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer. totem-gstreamer will play hardly
>> anything in comparison to totem-xine.
>> 
>> totem-xine can be found in the universe repositories.
>> You may also need the libdvdcss2 package to get around the CSS copy
>> protection stuff on some CDs.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:27 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
>> >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.
>