Is Totem getting deprecated?

With a special ;) to wolfi323 & jdmcdaniel3

Having been a Gnome user since SuSE9 (up to the iPhone-look) Totem has been a favorite mediaplayer. It was always fairly simple to make it play restricted formats (if I remember right installing libxine1, xine-ui and w32codec-all was enough). I think the problems started with gstreamer and possibly also pulse-audio.
-From around the SuSE11-versions I went over to SMPlayer2 and VLC that I have used since then, together with Kaffeine. They can handle most of my media files (but with a more tricky and opaque installation of the gst*-plugins).

I thought I should give Totem a final try in SuSE13.1, and failed!
I should first explain that I've got a working gstream- and ffmeg-installation (with just Packman as repo) and that this installation makes VLC and SMPlayer2 able to handle mpeg1 mpeg1 layer3 mpeg2 mpeg4 mpeg4-aac h.264 and vmv8 wma8 wmv9 and wma9.

-Now following the guidelines in:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...-missing-codec
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre...mpga-h264-mp4a
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre...ht=totem+mpeg4
and completed my gst*-installation with
gstreamer-plugins-libav (For AAC support)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-orig-addon
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-orig-addon (For H264 support)
libx264-142
The pkg gstreamer-plugins-ugly-addon I could not find in Packman repo.
and made a
# zypper dup --from Packman
Then finalized with checking if the latest guide could complete my installation in any way, using:
https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.ph...allation-Guide.

Now, Totem still complains about missing decoders for
mpeg4-video-decoder
h.264 decoder
gstreamer-element videoconvert (though I've got gstreamer-plugins-base installed)
mpeg-1 audio-decoder
mpeg-1 layer 3 audio-decoder
wmv video8 screen-decoder
wma audio8 decoder

Is it time to give up Totem?

(I've got similar problems with Totem in SuSE12.3)

Best regards
Lars