Breezy( totem plugins)

[Frank McCormick]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:33:19 +1000
James Livingston <jrl at ids.org.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:30 -0400, fmccormick at videotron.ca wrote: 
> > Upgraded to breezy a few days ago---and discovered Totem won't play
> > a lot of files. So I installed the W32codecs from the mplayer
> > site...and gs-streamer but Totem is still uncooperative. Won't play
> > avi's or wmv's.
> > 
> > Ran gs-register (I think that was the name) and it seemed to find
> > all the plugins. And where is the place in Totem where you add
> > plugins?
> 
> GStreamer won't use W32codecs out of the box, it needs the pitfdll
> plugin installed. The easiest way to do this, is to install the
> package "gstreamer0.8-plugins-multiverse" (which is in multiverse).
> 
> For me, having gstreamer0.8-plugins-multiverse and
> gstreamer0.8-plugins installed makes gstreamer work with most media.


Thats strange because I had the pitfdll plugin package installed. Then I
got the W32codecs and ran gs-register (which is actually called
gs-register-0.8) and it found the plugins. But Totem still wouldn't play
AVI's or WMV's.  Totem-xine works fine however.

Cheers

Frank