Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 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). > > 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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
