Thanks, Rony. I have already installed/uninstalled/re-installed the ubuntu restricted extras, gone over the documentation for troubleshooting at the ubuntu website etc but nothing seems to work. Tried installing gstreamer vs xine packages also -i think one used to be incompatible with the other and tried all sorts of ways but totem doesn't seem to work correctly on the audio front.
Sometimes one tends to make mistakes --which another can easily point out but i feel its better to use vlc than totem now. Totem has always had problems since i started using ubuntu 6, then 7 then 8 and now 9.04. I have always had to struggle for a few hours/days to setup/troubleshoot audio/video for something or the other application -win32 codecs or flash plugins in firefox etc etc. Now VLC seems to be a better bet than totem.
Kussh
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Kussh Singh wrote:
I can't get totem to work correctly but vlc works perfectly. I tried all
the
usual tricks--install the bad files, restricted formats, etc etc but
totem
does not work. gxine and others also work but totem does not.
You may have already done this but in case you didn't, install the package ubuntu-restricted-extra(s) for multimedia support. In 9.04 the package may have another name, I don't know, but in the older version this is the package that does the trick. Install it in a gui terminal using apt-get, not synaptec as the Java license agreement windows gets broken in a package manager gui.
-- Regards,
Rony.
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