Breezy( totem plugins)

[Winston at Ubuntulinux]

I agree. I don't know why Ubuntu default to gstreamer but it can't
handle many formats and I can't seem to find a place to add plugins
either in my breezy install.

So I switched to xine backend a few days ago (via Synaptic -
System-->Administration-->) and all seems to solve the problem. It even
played VCDs.

HTH.

Winston

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:58:03 +0200
ulrich steffens <ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org> wrote:

> i think the best way to have totem play all kinds of formats is still:
> 
> 	sudo apt-get install totem-xine
> 
> which dumps totem-gstreamer in favour of the xine backend.
> 
> hope this helps
>  ulrich
> 
> 
> 
> Am Montag, den 12.09.2005, 10:30 -0400 schrieb
> fmccormick at videotron.ca:
> > 
> > Upgraded to breezy a few days ago---and discovered Totem won't play
> > a lot of files. So I installed the W32codecs from the mplayer
> > site...and gs-streamer but Totem is still uncooperative. Won't play
> > avi's or wmv's.
> > 
> > Ran gs-register (I think that was the name) and it seemed to find
> > all the plugins. And where is the place in Totem where you add
> > plugins?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > ---Frank McCormick---
> > ------Montreal--------
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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