multimedia problems

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:16:30 +0800
Charles Yao <yaocharlesc at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I find them in synaptic, I cant seem to find either.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On 8/26/05, squareyes <squareyes at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > david wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:13 +0200, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>hi,
> > >>
> > >>i have a few multimedia clips that i downloaded from my camcorder in
> > >>OSX.. but when i try to open them with totem i get the error that it
> > >>is unable to open the file and that i should install the plug-ins.
> > >>after looking around for a while, i found out that there are a few
> > >>multimedia codecs that i need to install (like ffmpeg etc) but using
> > >>apt-get or synaptic, i am unable to find them in the list.. any
> > >>solutions? is there a better player than totem?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >My experience has been that Totem seems to spend most of it's life
> > >saying "I can't play this file", Xine is SO much better (mplayer is the
> > >other big player) both are available using synaptic.
> > >You could do with the w32codecs as well, I have a copy at home and don't
> > >know the URL but I'm sure someone will post it.
> > >
> > >Hope this helps...
> > >
> > >regards
> > >
> > >nux
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Hi Praveen,
> > totem-xine available in Synaptic.
> > w32codecs also avalable in Synaptic
> > hope this helps
> > Take Care
> > Winton

These links might help you:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

Peter
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