Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson <liamwilso...@gmail.com>: > >> 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. >> >> > > Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse > installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output > twice. :) > > Aah, so I did! Yes,
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is installed, and the output for VLC is: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ vlc VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x9583140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Chunk fourcc:28dd5416 ( [0xb7607a50] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (MPEG-4 Video) [0xb7607a50] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. Hope this helps a little; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/