Totem

[Johnny3]

Why doesn't Totem come with mplayer installed? I am new to Ubuntu and tried all kind of things before I found it was as easy as installing mplayer in SPM and clicking mplayer to get it to play mpg files.
Thanks Johnny3
Gainesville Fl
60+++ and get away from ms.

[-grubby]

I'd assume legal issues (e.g. with proprietary codecs,etc..)

[bruce89]

Totem can play MPEG files if the right codecs are installed:

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

[Nano Geek]

Totem can play MPEG files if the right codecs are installed:

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverseOr just
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasThat will get you just about everything you need.

[Presto123]

FYI: I just installed Amarok and like it much better. It will take a bit of space, but is pretty nice.

It runs just fine on Gnome, too.

[Presto123]

Or just
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasThat will get you just about everything you need.

Actually, I had to install these things separately both on 7.04 and 7.10.

[bruce89]

Or just
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasThat will get you just about everything you need.

Indeed, but it depends on other things that aren't useful here.

[tuebinger]

Or just
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasThat will get you just about everything you need.

Thanks for this! Now I can play my video files on Ubuntu. I was beginning to give up hope.
:)