infra_red_dude said:
totem-xine lead to removal of rhythmbox??? no, theres something wrong in there!!! which guide did you follow to install it? can you recall what you did?
1. The distro is FC7. Initially rhythmbox also was refusing to play mp3 files. Then I installed the gstreamer plugin. At that point of time totem was playing mp3 files, but with poor sound quality.
2. The fundamental problem with totem is missing codecs. When I tried to ply *.dat file it spewed out such an error message. What confused me was that, for different *.dat files the error messages were also different.
3. fedorafaq.org advises installation of totem-xine as a solution
4. When I tried to install totem-xine by typing 'yum install totem-xine' at command line; i got some error messaging saying there is come compatibility issue with totem-plparser.
5. Then I used yum to remove totem and tried to install totem-xine again. The command line displayed rhythmbox as a package to be removed due to some dependency issue. I went ahead.
6. But that did not solve the problem. I reinstalled totem and rhythmbox. BACK TO SQUARE ONE.
7. What is the difference between totem and totem-xine ?
8. In between I tried Mplayer too but it also refuses to play some *.dat files.