Replacement for Totem in Etch

mikieboy · 04-17-2007, 05:46 PM

I've used nothing but Totem to play DVDs up to now. However, the upgrade from Sarge to Etch has resulted in Totem's removal. I need a DVD player which supports menus and wondered what the replacement for Totem is in Etch.

rickh · 04-17-2007, 06:04 PM

Totem is still in Etch. It's part of Gnome, so if you installed KDE, it didn't default.

# aptitude install totem-xine

mikieboy · 04-17-2007, 06:20 PM

Originally posted by rickh:

Quote:

Totem is still in Etch. It's part of Gnome, so if you installed KDE, it didn't default.

Well yes I have KDE installed and Totem definitely got removed completely from my system. But if it's still supported then I guess I can re-install although I'm wondering whether to try Vlc or something else for a change. WDYT?

rickh · 04-17-2007, 06:24 PM

Be my guest. I've never used anything except Totem, myself ... just not very adventuresome, I guess.

nx5000 · 04-17-2007, 06:42 PM

I like gxine for playing videos and also dvds. I've never been disappointed.
gmplayer and vlc are very good for low cpu usage although I'm not completly happy with dvd support.
totem seems to not like me

stealth_banana · 04-17-2007, 08:31 PM

I like Okle (KDE Ogle front end) but it seems to be not in debian anymore, but is in Kubuntu. I Just downloaded the source and compiled it and my favourite Linux DVD player is back.

loserbar · 04-17-2007, 11:55 PM

i would highly recomend giving vlc player a try, its fast and very stable. here's the repository i use for it.
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/ sid main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/ sid main