Totem / Xine / SUSE 10

I can get Xine to play Quicktime movies (.MOV) fine on SUSE 10 but I can
not get Totem to play them. It says I don't have a Codec installed.

I thought that Totem uses Xine thus what plays in Xine plays in Totem.

Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?

jakirsch@comcast.net wrote in news:_b4of.10958$ME5.6347@prv-
forum2.provo.novell.com:

> I thought that Totem uses Xine thus what plays in Xine plays in Totem.

Except when you are using GStreamer as the engine for Totem.

Just a shot in the dark, I use MPlayer myself.

Uwe

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> jakirsch@comcast.net wrote in news:_b4of.10958$ME5.6347@prv-
> forum2.provo.novell.com:
>
> > I thought that Totem uses Xine thus what plays in Xine plays in Totem.
>
> Except when you are using GStreamer as the engine for Totem.
>
> Just a shot in the dark, I use MPlayer myself.
>
> Uwe
>
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> Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp
> Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.

Yes it did have GStreamer on by default and nowhere could I find anything
in documentation anywhere to get it to use Xine when I had GStreamer
installed as well.

However, adding Packman to YAST did the trick. Although I had
libxine1-gnome-vfs.. when I reinstalled libxine1 it said it would remove
another lib xine package. Apparently removing that package did the trick as
Totem is now running on Xine yet Banshee is on GStreamer... just the way I
wanted it.

Man... multimedia on Linux NEEDS to be easier. I go through problems like
this on every SUSE release!

jakirsch@comcast.net wrote in
news:K39of.11049$ME5.6525@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:

> However, adding Packman to YAST did the trick. Although I had
> libxine1-gnome-vfs.. when I reinstalled libxine1 it said it would
> remove another lib xine package. Apparently removing that package did
> the trick as Totem is now running on Xine yet Banshee is on
> GStreamer... just the way I wanted it.

Yep, that was probably the crippled xine lib which comes with SuSE.

> Man... multimedia on Linux NEEDS to be easier. I go through problems
> like this on every SUSE release!

Agreed, but that's mostly because of legal issues.

Uwe

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jakirsch@comcast.net wrote:
> I can get Xine to play Quicktime movies (.MOV) fine on SUSE 10 but I can
> not get Totem to play them. It says I don't have a Codec installed.
>
> I thought that Totem uses Xine thus what plays in Xine plays in Totem.
>
> Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?
hello,
google search the jem report, and you will find the codecs and
repositories you need...and a walkthru on how to do it .
Many thanks, steve.