Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[zapree]

ok so i did everything and what happens is that with youtube like sites it brings up gnash and it just sits there.... sometimes all that happens is a blank screen but i also get that it comes up with a little media player box that has the streaming bar like 3/4 of the way full and on the screen there are 2 blue circles, and i cant start it, also restarting the movie just pulls up this black and white media player box... also when i go to veoh it just tells me that i dont have adobe installed, although the firefox bar saying that plugins are missing doesnt pop up.... any help? im a newbie that needs alot of help
thanks for all the hard work
patrick

[darrellfjohnson]

Crap. Sorry about that, I usually read more thoroughly.

[ubuntu-freak]

ok so i did everything and what happens is that with youtube like sites it brings up gnash and it just sits there.... sometimes all that happens is a blank screen but i also get that it comes up with a little media player box that has the streaming bar like 3/4 of the way full and on the screen there are 2 blue circles, and i cant start it, also restarting the movie just pulls up this black and white media player box... also when i go to veoh it just tells me that i dont have adobe installed, although the firefox bar saying that plugins are missing doesnt pop up.... any help? im a newbie that needs alot of help
thanks for all the hard work
patrick

Please try the instructions and commands in the troubleshooting section for Flash.

[jmate24]

Thanx this has really helped with my thoggen not reading my dvd's

[altonbr]

It'd be nice if we could do most of this stuff via a GUI.

Like editing /etc/gnome/defaults.list, it can't be THAT hard, can it?

We have System > Preferences > Preferred Applications, but its hardly complex enough and doesn't handle VLC/Totem.

[ubuntu-freak]

It'd be nice if we could do most of this stuff via a GUI.

Like editing /etc/gnome/defaults.list, it can't be THAT hard, can it?

We have System > Preferences > Preferred Applications, but its hardly complex enough and doesn't handle VLC/Totem.

Most of it can be done with Add/Remove or Synaptic, but it's quicker to do the initial setup with the CLI.

Regarding the default DVD player setup, VLC doesn't identify itself as a DVD player, even though it's the best. Also, it was easier to make VLC default in pre-Hardy versions, but much of the GNOME code was rewritten, so we'll just have to play the waiting game for now.

[BLTicklemonster]

Removing libdvdcss2, getting the medibuntu repositories, then installing libdvdcss2 got me going with gxine and vlc, but not totem. It still says it can't read from the device. Why would I want to use totem if the others work? The color is all messed up in the others, and totem is the only one that I know of that allows me to adjust the colors in preferences.

The colors almost look inverted. Anybody know a fix for this?

*Edit:
Okay, I installed kaffeine, and it allows me to change the HUE, which fixed my problems with the color.

Danged if a K program didn't work on gnome just fine.

[FlyingWV]

I have a quick question regarding the how to.

Due to my hardware (I have a Creative X-Fi soundcard) I blacklisted/removed most/all of the ALSA packages and made the switch to OSS 4.0

My question is, would the fact that I am running OSS instead of ALSA fundamentally change any of the installation procedures in this how to? e.g. package selection.

Thank you for your time and input.

[altonbr]

No sorry, my GUI argument wasn't against your tutorial (your tutorial is fantastic!), I was just making the point that a lot of this stuff should have a GUI to it (such as multimedia defaults). How do you set VLC Media Player to be the default video player? You can't. I saw 8.10 alpha 1 and noticed their working on it, but I really hope they don't mess it up. Multimedia, as shown by this thread, is VERY important.

[ubuntu-freak]

No sorry, my GUI argument wasn't against your tutorial (your tutorial is fantastic!), I was just making the point that a lot of this stuff should have a GUI to it (such as multimedia defaults). How do you set VLC Media Player to be the default video player? You can't. I saw 8.10 alpha 1 and noticed their working on it, but I really hope they don't mess it up. Multimedia, as shown by this thread, is VERY important.

Thanks.

What I do is right-click on certain video formats, then go to Properties > Open with and choose a default like that, as I still want most formats handled by Totem. You can set other defaults in Nautilus (file browser) > Edit > Preferences > Media (GUI for GNOME defaults) and System > Preferences > Preferred Applications. It's just a shame we have to register VLC as a DVD player manually, but that's not GNOME or Ubuntu's fault.

P.S. Sorry,just noticed you've been using Ubuntu quite a while and my reply is very newbie-friendly. Saying that, new users could be reading this exchange anyway.