Hi all,

first of all, I must admit that I'm a new comer to this forum and Linux as well.

I installed Linux Fedora core 4.

Since I ran up2date, Totem isn't able to play any video files anymore no matter what type of file it is.

First of all, I read all I could find about this on Internet and after 3 weeks, I tried countless suggestions to no avail...

I downloaded the freshess codecs I could find in /usr/lib/win32 and it changed nothing at all.

I grabbed all additionnal codecs I could find including of course the wmv codec named wmv9dmod.dll.

I even copied all codecs (133 files) to /usr/lib/win32 and in the following rep /usr/lib/codecs that I've created as suggested on a web site that I visited.

Each time I'm trying to view a video file, no matter what type it is (.wmv, .avi, .mpeg, ect), I always get the same error message: ''There were no decoders found to handle the stream in file "file:///home/cverr/videop/nous.wmv", you might need to install the corresponding plugins.

Apparently, Totem doesn't know where all the codecs are and doesn't have the slightest idea about how and/or where to find them.

Of course, I made sure to use codecs specifically rewriten for Linux.

While I have Mplayer able to read most of these files (sometimes some of them are just giving weird crappy images on some wmv files) none of them are played by Totem.

Finally, I would like to add that I even totally uninstalled Totem and freashly reinstalled it with yum but it solved nothing at all.

Please, don't tell me to only use Mplayer and be satisfied with it...

If this possibility would have been satisfying to me I sure wouldn't have posted a message here is the first place.

I'm not a man who can be satisfied by easy solutions, I'm an hardware maniac and If i'm a very qualified hardware technician I have very poor programming skills and I know no programming languages but htlm, but, I sure don't want to give up on this Totem problem as long as I will solve it once and for all.

Is there a way to tell Totem where the $%& codecs are?

By the way, I would also appreciate to klnow why some wmv files are just giving weird images (looking like undecoded images anyone can see on pay TV when they don't have the decoder) if possible.

Please, help me.

Any help will be deeply appreciated as long as you realy know what you're talking about.

Chris

cd to /usr/lib
create a symlink named <codecs> to <win32>
<ln -s win32 codecs>

As mentionned before, I already have a directory in /usr/lib named codecs with all the same codecs as in /usr/lib/win32

furthermore in the /usr/lib/codecs repertory, there is a symlink to /usr/lib/win32

apparently Totem just doesn't know that and/or is just not configured to see it but I have no idea where to change Totem settings about where to look for codecs

I have this problem as well, is there a solution?

in reply to your question CJC252

the only solution I found was to use a better distribution than bunch of shitt that FC4 is.

If I would have know that the Linux dirtibution Fedora core was just a test bed for the Linux Red-Hat distribution I would never have installed it in the first place but I was a newbie and I knew nothing at all about it or Linux as well.

Now, I'm using the latest Mandrake distribution Mandriva 2006 and everything is top notch. As a matter of fact, for those it might interest, comparing Fedora Core 4 to Mandriva 2006 is like comparing horse and buggy to an F18...

On the other hand, it made me discover that the .wmv files (porn clips hehehe) that I was trying to play are i in fact crypted files that can't be seen unless you have the right key. Unfortunately, this key is only available Online and to my very restricted lnowledge it appartently (I may be wrong) is not available for any Linux users since something doesn't allow us to properly communicate with the Online key distributors of these crypted video files.

While this looks like a kids game on Windows it has apparently been Overlooked on Linux (a little like seing webcams of MSN users on any Linux chat applications).

Regards

Chris

I am running Mandriva Limited Edition 2005, and I can't get any of the new codecs to be recognized by Totem, Mplayer, Kaffeine, or Xine. While Mandriva nicely install's a lot of codecs initially, there are still a few it doesn't get, like the wmv-9. And just about any wmv file plays crappy.

I grabbed the "essential codecs" package from www.mplayer.hu and install it in these directories like the readme file suggests:

/usr/local/lib/codecs/
/usr/lib/codecs
/usr/local/lib/win32
/usr/lib/win32

So now I have four copies of all the codecs, and still none of the players are doing anything different. I have a non-encrypted wmv, and I just downloaded an x264 video. I would love to play them, so I will be watching this thread and trying to figure it out myself.

Hi
I'm running FC4. I ended up un-installing totem and installing xine-lib and gxine in its place. I really did not try very hard to make totem work with win32 codecs since gxine works very well.
http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases
for rpms
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

I also recommend mplayer and mplayer-plugin.