Graeme Nichols wrote: > I am running FC6 and for the first time since I was running RH6 I > want to play videos and audio files. How do you survive without audio? :) > My experience with sound and linux has been very negative so I have > never bothered and consequently I have no knowledge of the subject. It's not so bad. Patents and other proprietary things make it more difficult than it should be though. > In FC6 Totem seems to be a front end for gstreamer and all the necessary > gstreamer bits and pieces have been installed. > > Can someone please tell me which video and audio formats that Totem can > play? That depends entirely on what gstreamer plugins you have installed. By default, Fedora doesn't come with any plugins that have patent or license issues (e.g. mp3, wmv, etc) > Which video and audio formats it cannot play and if there are > plugins available that will enable Totem to play them? > > Two that I have discovered it cannot play are mp3 and wmv saying > that possibly a plugin is needed. > > I cannot find any information on plugins, how to obtain them, how to > install them etc. anywhere. Google turns up numerous links when searching for fedora totem mp3. Here's one that seems reasonable: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=b2db943185e286a3a3e7be489bd651cb&t=100206&highlight=totem+mp3 HTH, -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Put the key of despair into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly and open the gates of despondency - welcome to a day in the average office.
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