Newbie trying to see VDC and DVD with Totem.

[Brian Durant]

Synaptic wants to remove totem-gstreamer and ubuntu-desktop. Can't the
two live side by side? If not, is there a totem-gstreamer dummy out
there so that I can keep the ubuntu-desktop? I had to do this once
before with OOo as I have Star Office 7 installed. Unfortunately, I
can't remember the instructions for creating a dummy.

Cheers,

Brian

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:27:08 +1100, Lex Hider <Lex.Hider at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't comment on VCDs, but you should be able to watch DVDs if you use
> totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer. totem-gstreamer will play hardly
> anything in comparison to totem-xine.
> 
> totem-xine can be found in the universe repositories.
> You may also need the libdvdcss2 package to get around the CSS copy
> protection stuff on some CDs.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:27 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
> >Hi again,
> >
> >I am trying to get Totem to behave so that I can watch VCDs and DVDs.
> >I have skimmed through the various HowTos, FAQs, etc. and I believe
> >that I have all of the codecs downloaded properly from the alternative
> >repositories. Totem just doesn't seem to be able to do anything. I
> >have looked at the add proprietary plug-ins section of Totem prefs and
> >don't find anything in there. Do I have to symlink or navigate to the
> >win32 codecs, gstreamer et.al. or is there another way to do this? I
> >know someone is going to post with the suggestion that I try Mplayer,
> >but I don't have a virgin system, I don't want to upgrade to Hoary yet
> >and after the debacle I have had with trying different CD burners to
> >burn an audio CD and none of them as of yet being able to do anything,
> >I would prefer to start slowly with Totem and try to get that to work
> >before moving on to anything else.