can't see videos (totem)

hectorDUQUE · 04-18-2007, 12:18 PM

hi guys,
i'am getting this message when trying to watch a video:

"Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it."

may somebody tell me how to know which are the "appropriate plugins" ?

thanks in advance

hector

b0uncer · 04-18-2007, 01:07 PM

You did not specify which version of Fedora you're using, but read

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=100206

and see what it says.

hectorDUQUE · 04-18-2007, 10:51 PM

thanks bouncer,

i have installed all the recomended stuff in these links:

1- the one you tell me
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=100206

2- http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Fe...llation-HOWTO/

but i have yet the same message form totem:
"Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it."

does somebody know what's going on ?

thanks,
hector

3rdKey · 04-19-2007, 05:44 PM

Hey man,

To be honest, I'd ditch Totem asap and get the VLC player - it plays pretty much all the files you'll need, from AVIs to Divx to DVD.

Check it out:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html

The only "downside" is that it has a LOT of prereq dependencies, which you will need to trackdown and install, but it's well worth the time. Totem has always given me problems. When I re-installed Fedora on my new machine, Totem was one of the first things I took off.

Quakeboy02 · 04-19-2007, 05:50 PM

Generally, if you're trying to watch a DVD, you need to install libdvdcss2. That goes for all DVD players.

hectorDUQUE · 04-19-2007, 08:41 PM

hi quakeboy02,
well, i have installed libdvdcss, but i don't find the libdvdcss2

Code:

 yum install libdvdcss2
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
Loading "tsflags" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "changelog" plugin
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
macromedia                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
livna                     100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00     
http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/6/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 117 kB    00:03     
livna     : ################################################## 391/391
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 549 kB    01:03     
updates   : ################################################## 1386/1386
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

do you knoe where to ge it ?

3rdkey, i will try VLC player also, thanks ... ;-)

Quakeboy02 · 04-19-2007, 08:47 PM

Maybe it's just libdvdcss on your distro and libdvdcss2 on debian, then?

3rdKey · 04-19-2007, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorDUQUE

do you knoe where to ge it ?

In Fedora, I believe there is only a libdvdcss, at least, my VLC is running of of that...

You can get it here:
http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/libdvdcss/

A bit of advice though: whenever you need any type of RPM file, just Google the name of it with a "+ RPM" behind the search string...its gaurenteed to bring you tons of results :-)

Good luck!

hectorDUQUE · 04-20-2007, 12:04 AM

hey guys,
my problem had a two lines solution (fedora 6):

Code:

 yum install vlc
 yum remove totem-xine

thanks 3rdKey :-)