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[AuntiMame]

I've been trying to download the quicktime plugin for totem in hopes that I can play the movies I've ripped for my iPod. But the rpm has lots of failed dependencies, and when I try using yum there appears to be lots of packages excluded.

Does anyone know the file to edit to remove the exclusions?

Aunti

[samphilomath]

I've been trying to download the quicktime plugin for totem in hopes that I can play the movies I've ripped for my iPod. But the rpm has lots of failed dependencies, and when I try using yum there appears to be lots of packages excluded.

Does anyone know the file to edit to remove the exclusions?

Aunti

Just remove Totem and install VLC. This will save you all the trouble on adding codecs and stuff.

[donk40]

What version of VLC did you install?  Where did you get it?  I tried installing VLC for Fedora 7 on my XO and got two missng dependencies: libopendaap.so.0 and libdvdnav.so.4.  Did you have this problem? How did you solve it?  I started looking for these files and one had eight dependencies.  I didn't look any farther so I don't know how far down that tree goes.  (Dependencies of dependencies of dependencies, etc)  If you coud give instructions on how to get it working, it would be greatly appreciated.  I've looked on other forums but all I see is someoe saying they can't get it to work, then someone else says they had a different problem but it didn't work, and on and on with no resolution.  It's very annoying!  I have VLC on my XP machine and it works great.  All you need to do to install it in XP is download and run one file and it works.  I wish Linux would do that.

[donk40]

I got it!  Here's how I solved the missing dependencies to install VLC.  I wrote this for the Linux challenged, like me. 

First, I went to the VLC site with Opera to download the VLC install file:

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

and downloaded the Fedora 7 version of livna-release-7.rpm then typed in:

su
rpm -i livna-release-7.rpm
yum install vlc

This told me what files were missing.  In Opera, I went to:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/7/

I downloaded the missing i386.rpm files, went to the directory I downloaded them to (cd /home/olpc), and typed:

su
rpm -i libdvdnav-0.1.10-3.fc7.i386.rpm
rpm -i libopendaap-0.4.0-2.fc7.i386.rpm

then:

yum install vlc

I tried running VLC by typing in:

vlc

but it didn't work, so I tried the install again:

yum install vlc

and it worked!  Now I can run stored and streaming audio and video. I'm so impressed!

In Opera, it's easy to associate a file type to VLC.  Click on the link, then on "Change" and a screen will come up asking how you want to open it.  Click the bubble next to "Open with other application" and type in:
/usr/bin/vlc

If you want to delete the association, click on the "O" at the top, left of Opera, select Tools -> Preferences, click on Downloads, highlight the entry you want to remove, and click Delete.

Don

[apater]

I've been trying to download the quicktime plugin for totem in hopes that I can play the movies I've ripped for my iPod. But the rpm has lots of failed dependencies, and when I try using yum there appears to be lots of packages excluded

What package are you trying to install?

[AuntiMame]

What package are you trying to install?

apater,

I'm trying to use gstreamer-quicktime-0.3.0-1.i386.rpm


Aunti

[samphilomath]

Its been say you can even play youtube from the Totem player also. But I haven't had any luck so far. I still dont know how to add the codecs and plugin to Totem in the XO
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/04/play-youtube-videos-from-the-totem-movie-player/

[brisalta]

Its been say you can even play youtube from the Totem player also. But I haven't had any luck so far. I still dont know how to add the codecs and plugin to Totem in the XO
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/04/play-youtube-videos-from-the-totem-movie-player/

Totem uses gstreamer.
The plugins directory for gstreamer  already exists. It is /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/ . Put new plugins in there and give them the same permissions as the other ones in there. Do this as root or be prepared to chown and chgrp the file to root.

Some useful information on using gstreamer is at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-using.html

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-troubleshooting.html

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/

More information on Totem can be found at http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/