I’m on Ubuntu for most stuff (though I escaped from GNOME a while back). Here’s a question:
Why does totem think it can play any content at all?
Whenever I go to a webpage with quicktime/real/anything video, it pops up “Totem could not play ‘fd://0’”.
Totem, we know. As we’ve established, you are fucking useless. The only shame is that you persist in trying.
Mplayer can play any video format ever, from the command line, with about 30 alternative output mechanisms for audio and video (watching star wars in an xterm is highly recommended).
Rather than put this in the base, Ubuntu decided it would be more fun to have me
alternate between swearing at ‘plugger’ and resorting to ‘view source’ and wget.
So, if you’d like to watch video on ubuntu, you need to:
- enable the ‘multiverse’ repo
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer
- sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla
Then go to the mplayer site ,download the right ‘Binary Codec Packages’ for your architecture (these work on any UNIX). It untars to make a folder called something like:
’essential-20061022’ – rename that to /usr/lib/win32 and you’re done.
No idea how to get quicktime and realplayer to do the same,