totem gstreamer to play real media

**peteron** · June 12th, 2008

Anyone knows how to set up the totem gstreamer to play real media under ubuntu 8.04lts? No audio and No video

I tried Mplayer, but doesnot work. Only has audio but no video.

thanks a million.

**wolfen69** · June 12th, 2008

uninstall mplayer. then

Code:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

then re-install mplayer and throw in vlc for good luck. it should work now.

**peteron** · June 12th, 2008

thanks, but still error occurs
error opening/initialing the selected video_out (-vo) device

by the way, what do you mean by 'throw in vlc'?

**MmmmJoel** · June 12th, 2008

VLC is another media player you can try. You can install with:

Code:

sudo apt-get install vlc

**instinctive** · June 12th, 2008

Well I don't know which real media file type you're trying to play, but I've managed to play all my .rmvb files using totem. If you're not trying to play a .rmvb file this may work, I'm not sure as I've only tested .rmvb files.

Enable the medibuntu repo. Open up Synaptic Package Manager. Search for w32codecs and install it. (At this stage I already had the gstreamer packages installed so I'm not sure if they are required, so if this doesn't work ensure they are installed)

Now go to Add/Remove and install Totem (xine backend). You should now be able to play the .rmvb file by right-clicking it and selecting 'Open With' and use the command totem-xine.

I hope this works, please let me know.