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

rikona rikona at sonic.net
Thu Sep 30 17:33:13 UTC 2010


Hello Chris,

Thursday, September 30, 2010, 9:54:12 AM, Chris wrote:

CG> 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]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]medibuntu.org?
>> 
CG> If I knew what "the codecs" meant I might try it!  :-)

CG> Searching for codecs in synaptic leaves me none the wiser, there's no
CG> particular set of files that looks like 'codecs' to me.

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

You might try installing VLC media player and see if it has the same
problem. IIRC, VLC comes with its own codecs built in.

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 rikona        





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