2009/10/6 Liam Wilson <liamwilso...@gmail.com>: > 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. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > 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). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
