On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 13:29, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/24/2009 05:34 PM, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> it's been 1 month since I installed F11, and I never could get totem to
> work with proprietary codecs which require gstreamer-ffmpeg. Totem does
> know it has to download proprietary codecs (nice), but doesn't recognize
> I already have it installed and keeps asking me to (re)install it, and
> then it fails saying it is (duh) already installed :-/
> So, if someone managed to workaround this, please let me know, it willDo you have gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad and
> be much appreciated.
gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras as well? If not, install it and see if the
problem goes away
Actually I didn't have them installed, I will do it and then do some more tests. However, according to recent comments on https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764#c3 there is indeed some problem with gstreamer-ffmpeg and/or totem.
Also, if someone could actually fix this so that itThat cannot be done due to software patents
> "just works" as it was supposed to do, please, please, do it. It will be
> even more appreciated ;-)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents
I know Fedora can't be shipped with proprietary codecs -- and I do support the reasons behind this. But it does provide an "automatic retrieval" of such codecs (through PackageKit), this is the part that I referred to as broken (not necessarily due to PackageKit itself).
Regads,
Andre
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