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Using Factory?

Like Totem?

Want to use it with the Xine backend?

Then you need totem-xine.

You can grab it from my home repository (note: Factory only) - it should replace totem. You can now, if you want, use the full range of media types that Xine can handle. Furthermore, if you install the PackMan libxine* packages for 10.3 (yes, on Factory), it will use them too - including all the Windows codecs.

Why not just use the PackMan totem package? Because if a newer version number appears in Factory, you'll lose the Xine backend when you do an update. This way you're protected from that.

Once you've installed it, you can check within Totem that you're using Xine by doing Help; About and you should see the following information:

[Movie Player using xine-lib ...]