2009/10/6 Liam Wilson <[email protected]>: > Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >> 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video >>> files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what >>> Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. >>> >>> And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there >>> isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos >>> played just fine! >>> >>> >>> Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would >>> play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no >>> luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a >>> video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. >>> >>> I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the >>> restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; >>> >>> Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? >>> >>> If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! >>> >>> Thanks; Liam. >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >>> >>> >> >> I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. >> >> This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated >> libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with >> /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 >> version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke >> mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. >> >> If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if >> it can't find a file). >> >> > Well Running Totem gets me this: > > l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem > /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: > DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module > instead > import sha > ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, > framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 > ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 > decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) > ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. > > > and running VLC gets me this: > > l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem > /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: > DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module > instead > import sha > ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, > framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 > ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 > decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) > ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. > > > Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? > > Liam. >
Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output twice. :) -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
