My solution to totem issues is to deinstall it and definitely don&#39;t use it&#39;s plugins. It always crashes somehow...<div><br></div><div>At least on Fedora12, the gecko-mediaplayer is a more modern player-plugin for gnome. I use</div>
<div>&quot;gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8-2.fc12.x86_64 : Gnome MPlayer browser plugin.&quot;  ALso gxine-mozplugin-0.5.903-4.fc12.x86_64.</div><div><br></div><div>Both work well with google-chrome-beta-5.0.375.29-46008.x86_64 and netscape. I use chrome.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Due to their better integration with ALSA (I can explicitly set toslink digital out instead of using generic</div><div>/system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosink like gecko mediaplayer), my current favorites are the Qt-based smplayer ( smplayer-0.6.8-1.fc12.x86_64 ) andf the kde-based kmplayer ( kmplayer-0.11.2a-1.fc12.x86_64 ).</div>
<div><br></div><div>All seem to play the LAC 2010 videos well.</div><div><br></div><div>The easiest way to see these videos would be using a flash player like JWPlayer (e.g. <a href="http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/JWPlayerJSPL_Test">http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/JWPlayerJSPL_Test</a> ). Unfortunately, most flash media players don&#39;t support OGG/OGV, perhaps because underlying flash doesn&#39;t support the formats -- my jwplayer example above only supports &#39;.mp3&#39; &#39;.aac&#39; &#39;.m4v&#39;, &#39;.mp4&#39; and &#39;.flv&#39; [[ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Format_details">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Format_details</a> ]]. Foiled by media formats again...just when I was thinking it would be useful to put these videos on <a href="http://trainspodder.com">http://trainspodder.com</a> (under construction) as a good streaming-annotation test case as I&#39;ve mostly been concentrating on music: <a href="http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png">http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png</a>   <a href="http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png">http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png</a> ... </div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Niels<br><a href="http://nielsmayer.com">http://nielsmayer.com</a><br></div></div></div>