is there a good alternative to totem?

[Patrick Siglin]

I know out of the box ubuntu at least when I installed it. Totem would not 
play most of the movies I had. I really didn't care cause I always liked vlc 
and was planning on using it anyways.

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:22:39 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote
> On 11/03/06, CJ Kelley <debian_i386 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Is there a good alternative to Totem? I cant seem to play back movie files
> > when i use totem.
> 
> What types of movies?  Totem works fine for me for almost 
> everything. The ocassional windows media 9 or 10 file fails to play 
> for me of course, but that's a codec (licensing) issue and not Totem.
> 
> Reading this for some issues with certain codecs is good:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
> 
> You may also check to see if you have installed a handful of the
> gstreamer0.8-* packages for various plugins and codecs.
> 
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