Right now totem is set as the default application for all multimedia related files and it does not work as it should--i.e. there is no sound when any multimedia file is opened--even for ogg or wav files. Video files run but without any sound.
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.
So my question is --which configuration file needs to be tweaked such that all multimedia formats by default open with VLC and not with totem?
am using ubuntu9.04 and have an integrated sound card on an asus motherboard. Have changed the properties of most multimedia formats in nautilus to open with VLC instead of totem by default but there are cases such as while using search or other applications (such as kalarm) where the default system program for multimedia (ie totem) gets activated.
Thanks Kussh
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.
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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The problem is that totem cannot even play audio ogg files. ogg is not a restricted format. The problem is somewhere else. either its gstreamer or xine or not being able to setup the hardware driver for the soundcard properly. or is it esd or alsa or oss or something else?
any thoughts?
Will much appreciate if somebody could help me troubleshoot this step by step.
or help setup VLC as the default multimedia package . Am using ubuntu9.04 (32 bit) on an intel dual core asus motherboard.
Kussh
On Thursday 16 Jul 2009, Kussh Singh wrote:
[snip] help setup VLC as the default multimedia package . Am using ubuntu9.04 (32 bit) on an intel dual core asus motherboard.
I don't know how to set it up as the default multimedia package, but you can certainly set it up as the default player for each individual file type. E.g. for making VLC the default OGG player,
1. Open Konqueror.
2. Navigate to a directory containing an ogg file.
3. Right-click on the ogg file, select "Properties" from the context menu.
4. Click on the spanner button on the right-hand side.
5. In the Application Preference Order, Add VLC if it isn't already there.
6. Select VLC and keep pressing the Move Up button until it's the first application.
7. Click OK.
The next time you click on an OGG file in Konqueror (and presumably Dolphin) it will open up with VLC. You can do similar stuff for other media types that you have. Sorry, I don't use Gnome so you'll have to find someone else to fix your problem if you're a Gnome user.
Regards,
-- Raju
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
I don't know how to set it up as the default multimedia package, but you can certainly set it up as the default player for each individual file type. E.g. for making VLC the default OGG player,
Thanks, i have already done this (made the file associations with VLC) but
it is other applications such as miro tv or search button etc which use the system defaults (where totem is set as the default multimedia player). One then has to open the relevant file in nautilus which is a roundabout way to do the same job.
Kussh
On Thursday 16 Jul 2009, Kussh Singh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org
wrote:
I don't know how to set it up as the default multimedia package, but you can certainly set it up as the default player for each individual file type. E.g. for making VLC the default OGG player,
Thanks, i have already done this (made the file associations with VLC) but it is other applications such as miro tv or search button etc
which
use the system defaults (where totem is set as the default multimedia player). One then has to open the relevant file in nautilus which is a roundabout way to do the same job.
Hmm, interesting. I was trying to find out if there's a system-wide default application viewer list somewhere, but can't find one, so it'll probably have to be done in each desktop environment individually.
For GTK/Gnome applications you could try editing /etc/gnome/defaults.list and see if that helps.
If anyone does figure out how to change media viewers globally in Linux I'd be interested in the answer too.
Regards,
-- Raju
Kussh Singh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
I don't know how to set it up as the default multimedia package, but you can certainly set it up as the default player for each individual file type. E.g. for making VLC the default OGG player,
Thanks, i have already done this (made the file associations with VLC) but
it is other applications such as miro tv or search button etc which use the system defaults (where totem is set as the default multimedia player). One then has to open the relevant file in nautilus which is a roundabout way to do the same job.
Just check if VLC player has some option to become the default player.
Does anyone have PCLinuxOS DVD ?
TIA. Regards, Rajen.
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Regards, Dilip Khanolkar, +919769107738.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Rajen M. Parekhrajen.parekh@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have PCLinuxOS DVD ?
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