Slothie
January 30th, 2009, 10:42 PM
I've just upgraded my Compaq Evo NC810 Laptop from Ubuntu Dapper to Xubuntu Ibex. All is going well until I tried playing video...
It matters not which media player I try, they all play the media (.mov, .wmv, .flv files...) with sound but with no video. Please don't just say "Totem is crap try xine/mplayer/vlc etc" because I have, and they all do the same thing.
Strangely, Youtube videos play through firefox with no problem, after I installed flashplugin-nonfree.
What did I do?
I backed up all the file in /home/... to a USB drive:
cd /
tar cvz home | split - /media/LaCie/archive/tuxtop/bu090130-
Then did a fresh install of xubuntu. Then I unarchived all the files over my new login directory:
cd /
cat /media/LaCie/archive/tuxtop/bu090130-* | tar xvz
I then mucked about getting Thunderbird to see my emails (renamed .thunderbird directory)
Then I installed the flash plugin and got that working
Then I noticed the media played didn't work!
After extensive googling I found these instructions, so I did:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install alsa-oss faac faad flashplugin-nonfree gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-pitfdll libavcodec-unstripped-51 libmp3lame0 non-free-codecs sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unrar
That didn't fix it, so I tried installing mplayer (didn't work) totem-xine (ditto) vlc (ditto)...
I feel I must have a more fundamental problem...
Never had any problems playing videos in totem under dapper, so it's not that the video adapter isn't supported!
Any ideas anyone?
It matters not which media player I try, they all play the media (.mov, .wmv, .flv files...) with sound but with no video. Please don't just say "Totem is crap try xine/mplayer/vlc etc" because I have, and they all do the same thing.
Strangely, Youtube videos play through firefox with no problem, after I installed flashplugin-nonfree.
What did I do?
I backed up all the file in /home/... to a USB drive:
cd /
tar cvz home | split - /media/LaCie/archive/tuxtop/bu090130-
Then did a fresh install of xubuntu. Then I unarchived all the files over my new login directory:
cd /
cat /media/LaCie/archive/tuxtop/bu090130-* | tar xvz
I then mucked about getting Thunderbird to see my emails (renamed .thunderbird directory)
Then I installed the flash plugin and got that working
Then I noticed the media played didn't work!
After extensive googling I found these instructions, so I did:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install alsa-oss faac faad flashplugin-nonfree gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-pitfdll libavcodec-unstripped-51 libmp3lame0 non-free-codecs sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unrar
That didn't fix it, so I tried installing mplayer (didn't work) totem-xine (ditto) vlc (ditto)...
I feel I must have a more fundamental problem...
Never had any problems playing videos in totem under dapper, so it's not that the video adapter isn't supported!
Any ideas anyone?