On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:20:08PM +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 13:05 -0800, Christopher Nelson wrote:
>
> >
> > Are you using totem-gstreamer? If so, that could be part of the
> > problem. I've found gstreamer supports fewer types "out-of-the-box"
> > than does the alternative, totem-xine, which uses xine as the back-end.
> > I'm not sure which was the default when I installed, but totem-xine is
> > available for stable, testing, and unstable. Another thing you might
> > have to do is install libdvdcss (for dvd's) and w32codecs -- but there
> > are legal issues with these so they're not part of the Debian proper.
>
> Yes Christopher, I've got all the codec packages installed and can play
> DVD in Xine, some also work in totem and some don't. Totem usually gets
> stuck somewhere quite early on.
I had problems with DVD playback using gstreamer0.8 too, I've heard
gstreamer0.10 is better, but I haven't had the drive to try it out, and
it's only in testing/unstable.
> You're right, I use totem-gstreamer.
> So you would recommend totem-xine? But a more philosophical question:
> why use totem then at all if you can do it in xine?
I _think_ totem-xine can do (almost) everything xine can. I think the
reason to use totem instead of xine-ui or gxine is the GNOME Human
Interface Guidelines. If you don't personally care about them, feel
free to use whatever. You can then 'apt-get remove' totem if you want
and don't care about the gnome metapackage.
> When I have time I'll do more searches on the use of the plugins for
> gstreamer you mentioned to find out if that makes a difference.
Good luck, hope you find something useful. I just checked and a lot of
the plugins are available through debian, though some of the 0.8
plugins are only available in testing/unstable, and I think all of 0.10
is also.
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