Totem w/ xine engine

by default, fedora uses totem built against gstreamer. I dont' like gstreamer all that much, and it doesn't seem to work so well on my x86-64 bit systems.

So, here is how to build totem against xine.

1. first, download the required source files
   • totem.spec ¹⁾ - based on the Fedora defaults - modified for using xine instead of gstreamer
   • totem-0.99.19-feature-help-removal.patch ²⁾ - this patch is from Fedora's totem build
   • totem-2.16.5.tar.bz2 ³⁾ - the source files for totem
     
     
2. first we need to satisfy some dependencies:
   • perl-XML-Parser is needed by totem-2.16.5-1www.x86_64
   • iso-codes-devel is needed by totem-2.16.5-1www.x86_64
   • nautilus-devel is needed by totem-2.16.5-1www.x86_64
     
     
3. Now we need to copy the SPEC files into place, and then build the packages:
   
   

   # cd /usr/src/redhat/
   # cp ~/totem.spec SPEC/
   # cp ~/totem-0.99.19-feature-help-removal.patch SOURCE/
   # cp ~/totem-2.16.5.tar.bz2 SOURCE/
   # cd SPEC/
   # rpmbuild -bb totem.spec 

   
   

4. The above should create some packages:
   
   

   # pwd
   /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64
    
   # ls -1
   totem-2.16.5-1www.x86_64.rpm
   totem-debuginfo-2.16.5-1www.x86_64.rpm
   totem-devel-2.16.5-1www.x86_64.rpm
   totem-mozplugin-2.16.5-1www.x86_64.rpm

   
   

5. Now, if there were no errors, we can remove the old totem packages, and install the new:
   
   

   (this removes the packages without checking dependencies)
   # rpm -e totem-2.16.5-1.fc6.x86_64 totem-2.16.5-1.fc6.i386 totem-mozplugin-2.16.5-1.fc6 --nodeps
    
   (this installs the new packages)
   # rpm -i totem-2.16.5-1www.x86_64.rpm totem-devel-2.16.5-1www.x86_64.rpm totem-mozplugin-2.16.5-1www.x86_64.rpm