Totem broken in warty?

Doubletwist doubletwist at fearthepenguin.net
Wed Jan 5 21:46:10 UTC 2005


Rich Duzenbury wrote:
> Hi ubunters,
> 
> I've got a current warty install here, and I just think it's great.
> However, totem won't seem to play anything.  I've tried a number of .avi
> and .wmv files and I always get:
> 
> Totem could not play 'file:///tmp/whatever.wmv'
> failed to open; reason unknown.
> 
> Helpful, eh?  
> 
> How can I track down what the real problem is?
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Regards,
> Rich
> 

I had to install totem-xine to get it to play anything at all. It worked 
after that.

DT




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