Totem broken in warty?

Michael C. Thorogood mcthorogood at bellsouth.net
Thu Jan 6 00:04:35 UTC 2005


Doubletwist wrote:

> Rich Duzenbury wrote:
>
>> Hi ubunters,
>>
>> I've got a current warty install here, and I just think it's great.
>> However, totem won't seem to play anything.  I've tried a number of .avi
>> and .wmv files and I always get:
>>
>> Totem could not play 'file:///tmp/whatever.wmv'
>> failed to open; reason unknown.
>>
>> Helpful, eh? 
>> How can I track down what the real problem is?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Rich
>>
>
> I had to install totem-xine to get it to play anything at all. It 
> worked after that.
>
> DT

I am also running Warty and totem is broken.  When I try to install 
totem-xine, synaptic wants to remove both totem-gstreamer and the ubuntu 
desktop. 
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