[ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files

[Jonathon Fernyhough]

2009/10/6 Liam Wilson <liamwilson93 at gmail.com>:
> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>> 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson <liamwilson93 at 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.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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:
>
> liam at 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:
>
> liam at 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. :)