Movie Player

Raquel raquel at thericehouse.net
Mon Apr 13 04:40:38 UTC 2009


On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:08:56 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>     The title is the new name for Totem. It is terrible software I
> and thousands others have replaced with the VLC software. In all
> versions of Ubuntu up to Jaunty I have been able to remove Totem
> from my computer. On Jaunty it appears it is not possible to kill
> this poor excuse of a Movie  Player.
> 
>     As it is now I must specify use of VLC on every thing I use.
> Not doing that causes Movie Player to come up and want to find new
> drivers so it can show me what VLC does out of the BOX!
> 
>     Is there somewhere I can tell Ubuntu to use VLC instead of 
> Totem/Movie Player?
> 
> Karl
> 

Totem works fine/well for me.  It plays everything I've wanted to
play, from mp4s to DVDs.

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