Ok these are my tests (of http://www.allmusic.tv/streaming.asp)
1) after a clean edgy install + today updates (whith this gstreamer packages installed) gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-esd gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-x libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-0 totem-gstreamer ERROR: can't reproduce the file "mmsh://live.mediaserver.kataweb.it/retea?MSWMExt=.asf". No URI handler for «mmsh». 2) ok it's mmsh, so I have to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, which contains a package that supports mssh. ERROR: there is no codec to play this file DEBUG: don't know how to handle video/x-ms-asf 3) I know it's a .asf file so I decided to install w32codecs (I think the codec is here). since there is no package in repositories I used a previously downloaded one (fond in RestrictedFormats wiki page) w32codecs_20060611-1plf1_i386.deb which installs all the plugins in /usr/lib/codecs as you told me gstreamer0.10-pitfdll is required to handle w32codecs, so I installed it, but the error continues, as if w32codecs package does not contain any package to handle "video/x-ms-asf" 4) the package which unblock the error is gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, but I get no video and no audio. NO ERROR: DEBUG MESSAGE: DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1 DMO dll might use previous sample when requested (note that this package is not enough to unblock the error, I tried to uninstall pitfdll+w32codecs to see what would have happened and totem gived me a debug message: don't know how to handle video/x-wma .. some values ... don't know how to handle video/x-wmv ... ) 5) I installed the multiverse and ffmpeg plugins but the situation is the same. I'm wondering how did I get in my last configuration the audio working!! this is the list of packages installed (only gstreamer) at the end of the tests: gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-esd gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-x w32codecs can you give me the list of your installed packages? -- totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin gives an error in a page https://launchpad.net/bugs/46217 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs