So I am working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and testing what firefox can and can't do. I try loading a movie (.wmv) and it starts totem. Totem is apparently some open source multimedia player. OK, fine. But it doesn't play my .wmv file. Upon further inspection it doesn't play my .mpg, .qt or .avi. Since it seemed pretty much useless, I removed it.

Now, when I click on my .wmv in firefox, it starts kaboodle. Kaboodle appears to be KDE's open source multimedia player that also cannot play any video I have.

I am not angry with the open source developers of these apps, they simply made a useless application. There is nothing wrong with that, I have done it myself. I am angry with the Red Hat developers that decide to use said useless applications when clearly they don't work.

By the way, mplayer plays all of my videos just fine.