Arnie Stender wrote: > > OK, I ran totem and tried to open a couple of *.wmv files. I got the > message "You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You > might need to install the necessary plugins.". This came up in a pop up. > I installed gstreamer , gst-plugins-base and gst-plugins-good. For each > I installed only the "required" packages according to the book. As you > can tell, I don't know a lot about how audio/video works on a computer.
For gstreamer, all the dvd plugins are in plugins-bad and plugins-ugly. You'll need those guys and their dependencies to get anything going. However... Current gstreamer-0.10 dvd support is pretty poor. It's slowly improving, but I just found out the other day in some guys blog that most of the developers (who work for a company called Fluendo) are contractually obligated to not work on the DVD code for some reason. So, the code is suffering. Now that you've gone through all the pain of installing gstreamer, I would suggest installing the xine libraries if you want to get dvd support going. Way, way better. Totem works great on dvds for me w/ xine, but was horribly broken w/ gstreamer. Now I will read about the error with libmpeg2. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
