Upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 - Won't play media

[Nicoon]

Hi guys,

I upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic yesterday. One thing I noticed after the upgrade was that none of my videos worked anymore. It claimed I no longer had the correct codecs to run it - same in all players, including VLC.

I reinstalled the ubuntu-extras, searched for codecs, did manual installs through synaptic, ... anything I could think of and nothing worked.

Anyone care to point me in the right direction?

[SoundGuy.Jon]

I'm having the same problem. None of my videos will play in any media player, not even VLC, with which I have never had a problem playing a video unless it was corrupted. This is very very annoying. Hopefully the developers will see the problem and fix it soon

[legalguy]

Me three...I noticed the restricted extras were gone, instaling those didn't help.

[chenxiaolong]

I did a clean install and this also happens to me. I guess it's a bug in the new OS.

[11010110]

Yeah it is the same thing with me... I've had my own thread going on it too. More exposure couldn't hurt I guess. Ill link ya to it. Maybe someone will get back to one of us lol.


heres my thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308235

Good luck everyone!

[Pépou]

Same problem for me since I upgraded my ubuntu to karmic. All videos freeze all the time !!

[jet-san]

My movies woks, I mean I can watch it, but without sound.
After upgrade to 9.10 I have NO sound on Ubuntu (music, videos, etc.).

Does anyone have problem ONLY with sounds like me?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...55#post8221955

[chenxiaolong]

I got the problem fixed. Make sure you have the Medibuntu repository disabled if you have it. Here's how I did it:

I removed the packages that were installed by the metapackage "ubuntu-restricted-extras". (If you use synaptic, choose the completely remove option or run the command below the list)

ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
liba52-0.7.4
libavcodec52
libavformat52
libavutil49
libdvdnav4
libdvdread4
libgsm1
libid3tag0
libmad0
libmpeg2-4
libpostproc51
libschroedinger-1.0-0
libsidplay1
libswscale0
libtwolame0
ubuntu-restricted-extras
libavcodec52
libavformat52
libswscale0
libvlc2
libvlccore2
vlc
vlc-data
vlc-nox
vlc-plugin-pulse

sudo apt-get remove --purge ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly liba52-0.7.4 libavcodec52 libavformat52 libavutil49 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libgsm1 libid3tag0 libmad0 libmpeg2-4 libpostproc51 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libsidplay1 libswscale0 libtwolame0 ubuntu-restricted-extras libavcodec52 libavformat52 libswscale0 libvlc2 libvlccore2 vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-pulse

This will remove any codecs installed and any programs that use the codecs. Ex. mplayer, Audacity, xmms, etc. Don't worry, you can install them afterwards.

Then install the ubuntu-desktop package (I have no idea how it got removed):

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

OR if you use Kubuntu, run:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

Then clear the package cache, so it doesn't install the same screwed up package again:

sudo apt-get clean

Restart your computer.

Afterwards, install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package again:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

And install any other player/software that was removed again and hope that it works

[Pépou]

Works for me !!!

Thank you so much !!

[garvinrick4]

Try Movie Player with Ubuntu-restricted-extras in add-remove applications is simplest.

Movie player with all the codecs in ubuntu-restricted-extras
plays just about everything you can throw at it.


If you think problem with restricted extras remove them.

Use your GUI or the terminal which ever you choose.



Sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

If package is broken you have to apt-get clean to remove from cache or you are just adding same package back again.
I know simple but just in case you need the help.