Re: Totem

Graeme Nichols wrote:
I am running FC6 and for the first time since I was running RH6 I
want to play videos and audio files.

How do you survive without audio? :)

My experience with sound and linux has been very negative so I have
never bothered and consequently I have no knowledge of the subject.

It's not so bad. Patents and other proprietary things make it more
difficult than it should be though.

In FC6 Totem seems to be a front end for gstreamer and all the necessary
gstreamer bits and pieces have been installed.

Can someone please tell me which video and audio formats that Totem can
play?

That depends entirely on what gstreamer plugins you have installed.
By default, Fedora doesn't come with any plugins that have patent or
license issues (e.g. mp3, wmv, etc)

Which video and audio formats it cannot play and if there are
plugins available that will enable Totem to play them?

Two that I have discovered it cannot play are mp3 and wmv saying
that possibly a plugin is needed.

I cannot find any information on plugins, how to obtain them, how to
install them etc. anywhere.

Google turns up numerous links when searching for fedora totem mp3.
Here's one that seems reasonable:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=b2db943185e286a3a3e7be489bd651cb&t=100206&highlight=totem+mp3

HTH,

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