can someone explain to me something

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 13:48 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> How is it that I need to have three media players?
> 
> I received a movie from a friend the other day, With VLC I can hear
> the sound, with Totem I can see the thumbnail picture but not play the
> movie or hear the sound, but with mplayer I can play the movie and
> hear the sounds.
> 
> It's never the same but.
> Sometimes (mostly) it's VLC that will  play the movie fine, other
> times it's Totem... surely they're all using the same codecs as each
> other.
> Why is it that sometimes one can play it but others can't?

They don't use the same codecs. Totem uses the gstreamer framework
(along with the rest of the default GNOME media applications -
soundjuicer, rhythmbox, serpentine etc) and I believe that vlc and
mplayer have their own codecs.

Matt
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