Totem-Xine movie player supporting video/audio non free.

by crash — last modified Nov 15, 2008 05:32 PM
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Totem-xine is a simple but powerfull movie player, this version is in RPMFusion repo, and is linked against xine-lib unlike Fedora totem package, which is linked against gstreamer. Support for DVD playing will also be added.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

  • Fedora 7

Requirements

This assumes you have a working Fedora installation and that you have configured yum to use RPMFusion.

Doing the Work

Installling totem-xine

  1. Open a terminal

  2. Totem, and not totem-xine, is included by default, to use totem-xine you first have to remove totem, totem-mozplugin and totem-plparser because these will conflict with the dependencies of totem-xine. Totem-plparser by it self will pull out, because of dependencies, all what we want, plus rhythmbox if you have it, but for clearness of the process lets remove the 3 components:
    3. su -c 'yum remove totem'
  3. Now install the real stuff (some extra libraries from livna will give us more versality):
    4. su -c 'yum install totem-xine totem-xine-mozplugin totem-xine-plparser libdvdcss libdvdnav libdvdplay xine-lib-extras-nonfree'

Troubleshooting

How to test

Stick in your favorite movie-dvd, or open a non free video format.

Common problems and fixes

Don’t hesitate posting bugs (Bugs# 1519, 1211):

More Information

Disclaimer

Users should be aware of the legal limitations of non-free formats. Please do read the legal issues page.

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

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