Easy-to-install codec wizards:

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:33 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > ...since doing that doesn't work.
> > 
> > Anyway, I was only asking out of curiosity, since I don't really need
> > this functionality and am used to installing codec manually since
> > Warty. 
> 
> Do you maybe already have all codecs installed that you need? In this
> case you obviously won't see the automatic installer be called :)

Yeah might be that ! ;-)
Indeed the first thing I do whenever I install Ubuntu,
is to install all Gstreamer plug-ins, replace Totem with Totem-xine, and
the w32codec package.
On the other hand, right now I just downloaded an mp4 video,
which totem refuses to load (it hangs), and can't even thumbnail, yet
it didn't offer to install any codec for it...

--
Vince