Fresh Install Sid -> No Videos
 

I just did a fresh Debian instal & upgraded to Sid. I had the repositories set to get the codecs & audio & video was OK but somewhere along the line of my system set up (adding software) I lost the ability to play videos. I must have nuked a library or something I needed but I am not sure what. Totem just shows lines and plays sound.

I checked & I have ffmpeg , w64codecs and libdvdcss2 which was what I thought I needed.

Any thoughts ?


I would hate to have to start from scratch :(

At first, you can comment out the update repositories, they simply don't exist for Sid.

To your actual problem, start a video from the commandline and see if you get any error messages.

Totem uses either xine and/or the gstreamer plugins.

Make sure you have the following installed:
totem-plugins
libxine1-plugins
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio (if you use pulseaudio)
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
gstreamer0.10-x264

And of course ffmpeg, w32codecs, libdvdcss. And you should be good to go.
Personally I have never like Totem, vlc and mplayer never fail to play media.

And for your mozilla line you should replace $release with unstable, and $pkg-$ver with iceweasel-4.0 or iceweasel-3.6

Thanks for all of the input. No patience to troubleshoot I went back to Testing. Wheezy is treating me ok with the Liquorix Kernel.