Fedora core 4 and Totem Media Player??

Hal MacArgle
2006-04-27T20:04:18Z

Greetings am in trouble again researching media playing..

Fedora core 4, default desktop install that includes the totem media
player launchable from one of the pull down menus..

Plays a selected known good avi file/s/ to test and the screen looks
like a fractal display with coloured lights and circular swatches of
colour that resembles a circular saw... (Audio is fine)

The docs say that totem is a front end for xine but I don't see xine
anywhere in the apps... A Web lookup said to use totem-xine, but
that's not in evidence either in the installation or installation
DVD... I can only conclude that xine is included with the default
totem package.. Nothing I do seems to change anything..

I invoked totem from a terminal command line and got the following
report that I don't understand.. Running that started the viewing
window and ran the avi file just like a mouse click:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(totem:4011): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1719: signal
** `got-redirect' is invalid for instance `0x9b84e90'
Message: don't ** know how to handle EMPTY
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I found several sites on the web with a totem version earlier than
the one bundled, all for Fedora core 3, not 4...

I invoked ldd totem and found no missing dependencies... I'm stuck..
<g>

Any suggestions or words of wisdom?? TIA.. (I was so happy with CLI
for so many years.) <grin>