Not sure about Totem, I use Mplayer for audio and video. I had to configure an additional repository, Livna, to get plugins for the IP-encumbered formats -- once I did that everything was easy. Jim Hartley Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Todd, > > Thank you very much for the information and the link. > > I should be OK now. > > Regards, > > Graeme. > > > On 19/06/07, *Todd Zullinger * <tmz@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:tmz@xxxxxxxxx>> > wrote: > > 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 > <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=b2db943185e286a3a3e7be489bd651cb&t=100206&highlight=totem+mp3> > > HTH, > > -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: > www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp <http://www.pobox.com/%7Etmz/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. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > > > > > -- > Kind Regards, > > Graeme. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
