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

[Chris G]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:33:13AM -0700, rikona wrote:
> 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.
> 
VLC plays the AVI files OK.

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Chris Green