Re: totem media player...
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:38:11AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I also tried firing up totem movie player to see if it would help. Excuse
> my ignorance but is it the free alternative to real player?
>
> It can't seem to find the real player files on the web page. You can get
> the web page to look for a Windows media player file instead of a real
> player format file. If you do this then totem movie player says it can't
> read the file type and so you need another plug in.....
>
> What plug in might this be?
>
> In my earlier posting I had thought to try to download real player for
> linux but if other free alternatives are actually better then perhaps I
> should try to use them instead.....
Try VLC the VideoLan client. There's a plugin for mozilla-type browsers
as well. Both are standard debian packages. Look closely at all the
suggests and recommends.
Good luck.
Doug.
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