Movie Player

[Karl F. Larsen]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen 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?
>>   
>>     
>
> You might want to take a look at this from the Ubuntu forums:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683
>
> This goes through the steps to set up Ubuntu for all kinds of multimedia 
> stuff, from playing DVD's to MP3's.  There's even a section in there 
> that will tell you how to make VLC the default movie player...
>
>   
    Thank you. That is quite a good place to go. I found the part on 
changing from totem to vlc and it worked without a fault.

Karl


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