<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2007-18-02 at 19:34 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> You might need the gstreamer0.10 libraries in these packages: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I've got all these, but I've never had any luck with gstreamer in any version on any media files. <IMG SRC="cid:1171889778.7599.0.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0"> I'm not sure at all why Ubuntu defaults to the gstreamer versions of things. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Also, for xine, you might need libxine-extracodecs libxine1-ffmpeg </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> OK, libxine-extracodecs did the trick it seems. Thanks, Michael. (There wasn't a libxine*ffmpeg in my repository, though. Is that an external utility I may need to track down later on should other files cause me grief?) Thanks too to Florian and Luis for their feedback. </BODY> </HTML>