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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52974b10.10...@yahoo.com
