Totem Movie Player doesn't play movies, just sticks at first frame

[[C]hicken [G] od]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 01:09:03AM +0800, [C]hicken [G] od wrote:
> >    On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Chris G <[1]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> >      On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:01:36AM +0800, [C]hicken [G] od wrote:
> >      >    On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Chris G <[2][2]cl at isbd.net>
> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >      When I try and play AVI files with totem it just sits showing
> the
> >      first
> >      >      frame as though it's paused there but it's not paused.
>  Clicking
> >      >      pause/play does nothing.
> >      >
> >      >      I can drag the Time slider across and the movie plays, it
> just
> >      doesn't
> >      >      seem able to play by itself, any ideas?
> >      >
> >      >    Have you tried installing the codecs from [1][3]medibuntu.org?
> >      >
> >      If I knew what "the codecs" meant I might try it!  :-)
> >
> >      Searching for codecs in synaptic leaves me none the wiser, there's
> no
> >      particular set of files that looks like 'codecs' to me.
> >
> >    I meant all the possible ones. I left no stone unturned so I ran every
> >    possible codec that I could get my hands on.
> >
> OK, so how do I find them?  As I said searching for 'codec' in Synaptic
> produces a huge list 99% of which aren't codecs (I assume).
>
>
Try looking for these


   - libavcodec-extra-52<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavcodec-extra-52.html>
   - libavcodec-unstripped-52<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavcodec-unstripped-52.html>
   - libavdevice-extra-52<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavdevice-extra-52.html>
   - libavdevice-unstripped-52<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavdevice-unstripped-52.html>
   - libavfilter-extra-0<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavfilter-extra-0.html>
   - libavfilter-unstripped-0<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavfilter-unstripped-0.html>
   - libavformat-extra-52<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavformat-extra-52.html>
   - libavformat-unstripped-52<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavformat-unstripped-52.html>
   - libavutil-extra-49<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavutil-extra-49.html>
   - libavutil-unstripped-49<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libavutil-unstripped-49.html>
   - libdvdcss2 <http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libdvdcss2.html>
   - libdvdcss-dev <http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libdvdcss-dev.html>
   - libpostproc-extra-51<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libpostproc-extra-51.html>
   - libpostproc-unstripped-51<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libpostproc-unstripped-51.html>
   - libswscale-extra-0<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libswscale-extra-0.html>
   - libswscale-unstripped-0<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/libswscale-unstripped-0.html>
   - w32codecs <http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/w32codecs.html>
   - w64codecs <http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/w64codecs.html>
   - non-free-codecs<http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/non-free-codecs.html>
   - aacgain <http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/aacgain.html>

I am not sure if I covered all of them but in Synaptic you can check by
repository to see what is available with a description.


> >      In addition, since the movie plays OK when I drag the slider across
> >      surely the necessary codec is available otherwise it wouldn't be
> >      possible to decode the video.
>
> Any comment about this bit?
>

I can't comment on this since I am no expert but OOC what video card do you
have?


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