Totem crashes when trying to play avi file and no sound preview in nautilus

[Andy]

Bastian Doetsch wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> are there any known workarounds for playing avis with totem? It just
> starts up and instantaneously crashes. I already installed the w32codecs
> package from universe but that doesn't help.

Try installing totem-xine from Universe - Totem's default backend in 
Ubuntu (gstreamer) is (I believe) limited to "free" formats and also 
appears rather buggy last time I checked.

HTH

Andy