Learned to love Intrepid

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Nov 14 15:32:56 UTC 2008


David Vincent wrote:
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>>         Last night I used the Intrepid LiveCD to load it again on the 
>> lap-top and this time it wanted to update in 5 minutes 180 updates. I 
>> let it do that and then d/l VLC and some things for that stupid Totem. 
>> Totem can now display a DVD movie, but it still can't display local .wmv 
>> short movie files. So the heck with Totem! VLC works fine and I can do 
>> it all with no freezing of the screen.
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> install "ubuntu-restricted-extras" to get totem playing all the formats.
>    also maybe the "non-free-codecs" package from medibuntu.
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> - -d
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    Nope. VLC is so superior to Totem for all things I will just leave 
Totem alone.

It was just easy to test with Totem if Intrepid really fixed the freeze 
problem :-)

Karl


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