Re: useless totem

2006-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
Playlists. On 3/23/06, Paul Dwerryhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:20:08PM +, B.Hoffmann wrote:> You're right, I use totem-gstreamer. > So you would recommend totem-xine?I'd go one step further and recommend gxine. Its primary advantage overplain-old-xine is that it c

Re: useless totem

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:20:08PM +, B.Hoffmann wrote: > You're right, I use totem-gstreamer. > So you would recommend totem-xine? I'd go one step further and recommend gxine. Its primary advantage over plain-old-xine is that it can parse stream container files (I can't remember the real nam

Re: useless totem

2006-03-22 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 13:42 -0800, Christopher Nelson wrote: > You can then 'apt-get remove' totem if you want > and don't care about the gnome metapackage. > Good to know, I thought it might not be possible to remove totem without taking with it half of the Gnome libraries. Kind Regards, B.Hof

Re: useless totem

2006-03-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:20:08PM +, 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 alternat

Re: useless totem

2006-03-22 Thread B.Hoffmann
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 w

Re: useless totem

2006-03-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:38:25PM +, B.Hoffmann wrote: > Hi everybody, > > is it just me or is totem really quite useless as a player? Most times I > try and run something with it it just comes up with 'no input plugin > found' or 'cannot handle xxxstream', you know what I mean. > That when x

useless totem

2006-03-22 Thread B.Hoffmann
Hi everybody, is it just me or is totem really quite useless as a player? Most times I try and run something with it it just comes up with 'no input plugin found' or 'cannot handle xxxstream', you know what I mean. That when xine installed on the same system plays all these files and more quite we