Can't View MPEG's

carlosinfl · 12-30-2005, 01:24 PM

OK - Ubuntu is running on my Latitude D810 laptop. I noticed that Ubuntu loaded a media player called "Totem". When I try and watch a .mpg or listen to a .mp3, I get the following error.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...will/error.png

Does anyone know how I can resolve this? APT-GET seems pretty hard to use in Ubuntu. It never finds anything I am looking for but that maybe due to not have good source list.

Thanks for any info.

Nylex · 12-30-2005, 01:33 PM

Does this help?

bobbens · 12-30-2005, 01:34 PM

Man that is a pretty funky error, i don't user totem but use vlc, and somethimes gmplayer or xine depending on the file. Try running totem from command line with an mp3 or mpg like "totem *.mp3" i'm guessing and see if you get the same problem. If you have trouble finding things you must have a bad sources.list. I have no problem at all, but since i use debian sources i'm guessing it might not be too good of an idea for you to use them. If i remember correctly from surfing apt-cache, totem is xine dependent, you should check it out with "apt-cache search totem" and see what it turns out, you might be missing some package that totem requires, i find it wierd that it was installed automatically...

EDIT: nm Nylex beat me to it, i knew i should have used preview :P.

carlosinfl · 12-30-2005, 02:05 PM

OK - I downloaded the codecs from that link suggestion and it saved it to my users Desktop.

I ran the following command:

Code:

stricom@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i w32codecs_20050412-0.0_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package w32codecs.
(Reading database ... 56661 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking w32codecs (from w32codecs_20050412-0.0_i386.deb) ...
Setting up w32codecs (20050412-0.0) ...
stricom@ubuntu:~/Desktop

I then tried to open some .MPEG or .MPG files and still get the same error. Is a reboot needed or am I missing part 2 of this process?

bobbens · 12-30-2005, 03:49 PM

try using another media player like mplayer or vlc and see if you have the same problem. I'd probably suggest using xine, because when i search for totem with apt i get:

Code:

totem-xine - A simple media player for the Gnome desktop based on xine

Probing the package a bit more i find that totem is dependent on libxine1 (>= 1.0.1), which means it is dependent on the xine libraries, so try using xine and seeing if it works (and if you had it installed).