[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>:
>>
>>> 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. :)
>>
>>
> Aah, so I did!
> Yes,
>
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
>
> is installed, and the output for VLC is:
>
> liam at 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
>
>
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>

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.