Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[Janeleaper]

I didn't have Flash installed (I thought I did). With flash installed my media problems seem to have disappeared. Thanks to all.

[Jenga-kun]

I'm having a small problem. I had to reinstall Hardy and I began following the how-to. I did part one and then later I decided to install the flash 10 beta. I followed the instructions but now when I go to youtube or anything that uses flash I'm told that I need the flash plugin.

Another issue I'm having is with streaming video. My solution is most likely in this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=500 but I don't understand what reassuringlyoffensive means by "DO NOT let Update Manager upgrade your system during this process" How do I not let the update manager upgrade my system? Is there a command to use or a certain keystroke?

[ubuntu-freak]

I'm having a small problem. I had to reinstall Hardy and I began following the how-to. I did part one and then later I decided to install the flash 10 beta. I followed the instructions but now when I go to youtube or anything that uses flash I'm told that I need the flash plugin.

Another issue I'm having is with streaming video. My solution is most likely in this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=500 but I don't understand what reassuringlyoffensive means by "DO NOT let Update Manager upgrade your system during this process" How do I not let the update manager upgrade my system? Is there a command to use or a certain keystroke?

What browser are you using for Flash? Are you a 32-bit or 64-bit user? Do other sites display Flash properly? Might be worth downgrading to v9 for a while.

How do you not let Update Manager upgrade your system? Just don't click "Install Updates" while you have the Intrepid repos, that's all.

[ubuntu-freak]

I followed you how-to a couple of weeks ago, and everything worked great (although I'm having trouble backing up DVDs - but that's for another time). I wanted to thank you again for the how-to.

My issue now is that the new medibuntu codecs are not updating properly. When I run upgrade manager, it cannot find the medibuntu repositories. I'm certain this is a quick fix, but I don't know how to fix it.

Try the section in my how-to which suggests changing your sources from "http" to "ftp". You definitely added the Medibuntu repo yeah? You can check in System > Administration > Software Sources > Third Party Software.

[digf]

Thanks very much for your well written instructions. I am now able to watch You Tube etc.but have run into a bit of a problem. All my Gnome games have gone from the add/remove list. When I try to install any of them I receive a message telling me that it conflicts with something that is installed and that I should go to Synaptic to resolve the conflict. When I look at Synaptic I can't see how I can resolve it.
What happens is that when I try to install Gnome games I receive a message telling me that there are Unresolvable dependancies and gnome-games-data Depends:gnome-cards-data (<1:2.23 but 1:2.23.5 is to be installed

After following your instructions to get the Video Clips resolved when I re-started there were two messages telling me that something wouldn't load and asked did I want to delete them. I rather stupidly said yes so I suspect it maybe that thats causing the problem with the games.
I would appreciate any advice.
Thanks

[Torsion]

Thank you, this was very helpful. It now feels like everything works as it should.

[diego898]

I posted on another post but no one has responded. I followed this tutorial and have pretty much everything working, except for the videos on apple trailers. I hear the volume and the video doesnt work. I even followed the information in that single post that details changing all instances of hardy to intrepid and updating it, and changing it back, etc. Is there anything else I can do?

[ubuntu-freak]

Thanks very much for your well written instructions. I am now able to watch You Tube etc.but have run into a bit of a problem. All my Gnome games have gone from the add/remove list. When I try to install any of them I receive a message telling me that it conflicts with something that is installed and that I should go to Synaptic to resolve the conflict. When I look at Synaptic I can't see how I can resolve it.
What happens is that when I try to install Gnome games I receive a message telling me that there are Unresolvable dependancies and gnome-games-data Depends:gnome-cards-data (<1:2.23 but 1:2.23.5 is to be installed

After following your instructions to get the Video Clips resolved when I re-started there were two messages telling me that something wouldn't load and asked did I want to delete them. I rather stupidly said yes so I suspect it maybe that thats causing the problem with the games.
I would appreciate any advice.
Thanks

The following command should fix that:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[ubuntu-freak]

I posted on another post but no one has responded. I followed this tutorial and have pretty much everything working, except for the videos on apple trailers. I hear the volume and the video doesnt work. I even followed the information in that single post that details changing all instances of hardy to intrepid and updating it, and changing it back, etc. Is there anything else I can do?

You only have that issue with Quicktime videos? I'd usually suggest disabling desktop effects, or changing your video output to x11, which is mentioned in the troubleshooting section.

[tarasin]

This is an excellent post which has helped me greatly.
Although I did have some problems with the apple trailers after installing the gecko mediaplayer. Rather than using the method you suggested I used a different method to get it working.

I had previously seen an archlinux forum post which suggested altering a line in the pluginreg.dat file
from QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7:$
to QuickTime Plug-in 7 / 7:$

This worked for me when I was using mplayer and am happy to say it is working now for the gecko mediaplayer. I was wondering what your thoughts are on this?

Thanks for you help.