Re: Totem in stable cannot play any type of video, need your help.

[Jay DeKing]

On 11/25/2013 09:45 AM, Bo Lan wrote:
 On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 00:10 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
 Bo Lan wrote:
 This is my first mail here.

 Welcome!

 I am debian stable user. My Totem cannot play any type of video,
 included free format such as webm, ogg, and mkv.  When I open any
 video, it says, An error occurred: Could not determine type of
 stream. Need your help.

 I don't know about that particular error.  But you say it can't play
 any stream.  I guess that a dependency is not there.  I would try:

  * Try a different player.  Try vlc.  Try mplayer.

 apt-get install vlc
 apt-get install mplayer

 Do you have recommends turned off?  If so then one of the recommends
 for totem might actually be needed.  I am not sure what would be the
 easiest way to suggest that you install the recommends associated with
 totem.

   Recommends: gstreamer1.0-libav, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, 
 gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, totem-plugins, grilo-plugins-0.2

 Not having a better way I would probably suggest this:

   apt-get purge totem
   apt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends=1 install totem

 But if someone else suggested something better then that would be a
 fine thing too.

 Bob
 
 Thank you for your answer and suggestion. My Totem finally works. Every
 dependency has been installed very well, including gstreamer. 
 
 However, my computer's problem was that, some configure files had
 problem. So I deleted them by:
 
 rm -rf /home/MY-USER-NAME/.gstreamer*
 
 And then restarted totem so they can play stream now. 
 
 This problem also influenced every gnome kit which needs gstreamer,
 included but not limited to cheese, totem, and even Nautilus(cannot see
 stream info). 
 
 I am so happy can solve this problem, and also see your other solutions.
 
 Bo
 
 

I haven't been able to watch videos in anything but gwenview (odd, since
it's not billed as a video player) since last February. Then I followed
the instructions above, substituting vlc for totem, and vlc is
working again!

Dragonplayer still dies after a couple of seconds of play, but as long
as vlc works I'm happy. Thank you!

Jay


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Re: Internet with Debian

[Jay DeKing]

In my experience, the package 'wpa_supplicant' still doesn't come with the 
install image. Without it I can't connect to my wireless router. You need to 
install it manually, e.g. 'sudo apt-get install wpa_supplicant'.


Jay

 
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 From: Jim mrjw2...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 5:26 PM
Subject: Internet with Debian
 


I just downloaded the full live install IOS for Debian and burned to a USB. 
Booting using the USB works but I can not find any link or clue on how to 
connect the computer to the wireless router.
 
If there is a page that would help me get that done?
 
Jim

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Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?

[Jay DeKing]

From: David Guntner dav...@akamail.net

To: Linux Debian Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: KDE4 - way to add to k menu for *all* users?
 
So, no one has any ideas/info on this?  Am I the only Debian user who
doesn't use GNOME? :-)

David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
 Hi, all.
 
 I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as root
 would let you set the menu items for all users on the system.  Now,
 unfortunately, it only seems to edit the menu for the root user.
 
 Is there a way under KDE4 to edit the menu entries, and then have it
 save the new/changed entries so that they appear for all users on the
 system?
 
                    --Dave


No, you are hardly the only KDE4 user. It looks like nobody has an answer for 
you yet, though. I surely don't. Sorry about that. It is a good question. Have 
you asked on the KDE lists?


Jay



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