Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson <liamwilso...@gmail.com>: > >> 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/ >> >> > > Ah ha, just looked at the Openshot PPA to see what else it installs > and it is indeed likely to be an issue with the shared av libraries > (it's part of the ffmpeg stuff). You'll probably need to to remove > libavutil49 or libavutil50, remove the Openshot PPA from your > sources.list, then reinstall libavutil49. It will want to > automatically remove things like VLC and mplayer but nothing > important; you can then reinstall them. > > Yaaay! It worked! I could kiss you right now, but I can't, because that would be probably wrong on a lot of levels :)
Thanks a lot Jonathon. Liam :D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
