MPEG-4 Movies

[Michael R Head]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 09:16 -0300, Celson Aquino wrote:
> Ziyad said 
> 
> > MPlayer, and Totem (with the Xine pack-end) should play them fine.  Just
> > install the packages "totem-xine" and "w32codecs"¹ and try playing them
> > with Totem.
> > 
> 
> But when I try (in my TEST ubuntu partition) to do an "apt-get install
> totem-xine" it says it will uninstall totem-gstreamer.
> 
> I feel bad in remove the ubuntu default that is totem-gstreamer
> because I dont understand so much about this and I dont know if it
> will bring me problems in the future.
> 
> Someone can tell me something about this?

That should only happen in warty, IIUC. In hoary ubuntu-desktop allows
totem-xine to be installed instead of totem-gstreamer. Either way, it's
OK. The ubuntu-desktop is an empty package that just depends on all the
Ubuntu-selected apps. It adds nothing on its own.

The only issue you might find is when you upgrade to hoary, since the
ubuntu-desktop package pulls in more (and different) packages than the
warty one. At that point, you can always 'sudo apt-get install
ubuntu-desktop' to get all the extra Ubuntu-ordained packages.

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