I have been trying to play the go-open DVD that was available at the East
Side PLUG meeting last Thursday.  I have no problem under XP using the
included player for windows.  However, I am having little success under
Linux (ubuntu 6.06 or SUSE 10.1) and had asked Joe Zagar what luck he had.

Joseph Zagar wrote:

When I insert disk, file manager opens and shows 11(?) files the second one
"go-open-1X02.ogm" opens in Totem Movie Player and runs a 22 minute movie.

Joe

 I wrote back:

Almost the same except that nothing plays.  The second file icon does show a
picture of the host rather than the opening text image the rest show.  I
have totem (1.4.3-0ubuntu1) and totem-gstreamer (1.4.3-0ubuntu1) installed.

I did learn that the second one will play with Movie Player (about menu item
under help shows it to me Totem 1.4.3) although it does not autorun.  The
others will open but cannot be made to play.  The opening screen shows up
but the controls seem ineffective.  They act the same way if I drag them to
the desktop and try to run them from there. Interestingly, if I use the save
button in the lower right of Movie Player the saved file shows a different
icon and attempting to open the saved file gives the same error I get under
SUSE 10.1:

   Cannot open go-open-1x02.ogm

The filename "go-open-1x02.ogm" indicates that this file is of type "OGM
video". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type "MP3
ShoutCast playlist". If you open this file, the file might present a
security risk to your system.

Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or received the
file from a trusted source. To open the file, rename the file to the correct
extension for "MP3 ShoutCast playlist", then open the file normally.
Alternatively, use the Open With menu to choose a specific application for
the file.

I suspect this is a clue that Movie Player (mine) needs a plugin for
shoutcast that I don't have despite the fact that totem-gstreamer claims to
support it.  These are the kinds of things that drive folks away from FOSS
unfortunately.  I think I will bring this to the PLUG Discussion list for
help.

Oh, and one more thing is that if I wait long enough under ubuntu Movie
Player pops a small dialog box that says "An error occurred       Could not
decode stream" so again, it looks like some decoder is missing.

Anyone got an answer?

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