Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[ubuntu-freak]

Hi Ubuntu-Freak,

I've gone through all your instructions (very easy to follow, good job!) however my DVD playback is still very choppy or very bad quality. VLC works the best but playback is quite stop-start. Totem, gxine and mplayer all have very bad quality and choppy playback.

I've tried different commercial DVDs but all have the same effect. I can run DVDs fine in Windows. I've a toshiba equium laptop, 64MB Ati x300 graphics card, 512 RAM, 2 Ghz processor, running intrepid 8.10.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if you need more info please ask!

Thanks,

wisefaiz

Does enabling deinterlacing and disabling visual effects help? Also, are you running Intrepid?

[xoros]

After I run this:

 wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

I am getting this:

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY

Solved this NO_PUBKEY problem from this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...73#post1653773

[ubuntu-freak]

Solved this NO_PUBKEY problem from this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...73#post1653773

I'm glad you got it sorted. I saw your post earlier, but I do sometimes wait before posting suggestions as many people find the answer themselves, or the problem goes away on its own.

[Greatatuin]

Hi there,

Thank you for offering help but it didn't seem to fix my problem. I have installed medibuntu as directed by your guidelines. I disabled the visual effects but still cannot play video from the internet using firefox browser. I don't get sound, I click on the video and the video area goes black and thats how it stays.

do you have any more advice on the problem?

Regards

Greatatuin

[Greatatuin]

Hi There again,

I found the problem, disabled flashblock in Firefox add-ons.

If the problem reoccurs will let you know.

Thanks

Greatatuin

[wisefaiz]

Does enabling deinterlacing and disabling visual effects help? Also, are you running Intrepid?

Dude, disabling visual effects did it! Thanks man, can't believe it was that simple!

[wraithleader09]

Hello, I had great success with the guide for installing this media and the majority of my streams for video work. Where I end up having a problem is when I try and play trailers like the ones you linked to. Whenever those videos are buffering the video does not show up but instead shows me a line of text that has varying numbers but follows the basic lines of /tmp/geckotSbvj5 or similar. the /tmp/gecko stays the same, the letters and numbers change depending on the trailer I try to play. Hope you can help! thanks

[_zax_]

The problem is that i have no sound on firefox's viddeos. when i give the folowing command: <sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree>
i'm getting this error:


Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

can you help me?

<anyway thnx for this tutorial i've allready done everything else, this is the only remaining problem>
i'm on Ubuntu 8.10 32bit.

[jfg69]

Anyone have any solutions yet for playing .ivr files? I believe thats the Real Players latest streaming format..

[zander1013]

thank you for this great article!