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> On 2/20/19 8:22 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
totem in distribution
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1. Try to play videos and have an error thrown saying they can't be played
2. Click on "search" for "additional codecs"
3. Find nothing in GNOME Software, close it
4. Launch browser, search for fedora + "error message"
5. Find Fedora Magazine, a blog post, or a forum, linking to RPMFusion
6. Click on link to RPMFusion
7. Click on "Enable RPM Fusion on your system"
8. Click on "RPM Fusion free for Fedora XX"
9. Click install
10. Click on "RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora XX"
11. Click install
12. Try to play videos and have an error thrown saying they can't be played
13. Click on "search" for "additional codecs"
14. Click on first result, click install, click back
15. Repeat 14. for every item in the list (missing audio/video codecs might be
    in different packages)
16. Close GNOME Software
17. Click play, realise that it won't play
18. Close video player
19. Try to play videos again, it works

 
Or, something like this maybe?
1. Try to play videos and have an error thrown saying they can't be played
2. Google Fedora media player
3. Get to either Totem/VLC flathub pages with all the codecs
4. Click on install button
5. Profit

I don't see the benefit of removing Totem from Fedora, it is just going to hurt users who play files encoded in some open format. It is not going to help anybody else.