useless TOTEM!

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:52 -0200, Ricardo C O Freitas wrote:
> It does not play anything!
> 
> Always with an error message! (about the codecs)

What exactly does it say?

> All possible codes as installed and ALL the others players do the job!

Do you have totem-gstreamer or totem-xine installed? The 2 versions use
different codec packages. E.g., w32codecs will not be used by
totem-gstreamer, just by totem-xine. To play those formats with
totem-gstreamer, you have to do additional stuff.

Before Dapper, totem-gstreamer was useless for my needs, but now since
Dapper, with gstreamer0.10, totem has played every file I tried so far.

Did you follow the instructions?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats


> Using Ubuntu-desktop, so I cannot remove it.

Just FYI, you *can* remove ubuntu-desktop. You just have to make sure to
install it again before upgrading to a new release of Ubuntu. (However,
when you upgrade the recommended way with the Update Manager application
it will take care of this for you)