Certain Media Wont Work

Question

Recently, my computer stopped being able to play mp4, 3pg, avi, mkv, and more media. VLC will get it to work, nothing else does, and when I try to play it with the normal player it always tries to find codecs to install, when just yesterday everything worked fine

Have you done any upgrade or something ?.. – aneeshep Nov 03 '10 at 06:40 — aneeshep, Nov 03 '10 at 06:40
Perhaps, either way... I'd just like to play my files again – Grayson Nov 04 '10 at 00:23 — Grayson, Nov 04 '10 at 00:23

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 03 '10 at 07:34

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Make sure you have the ubuntu-restricted-extras package installed, as well as the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse packages. You can find them in Software Center; if they don't show up there go to edit->Software Sources and make sure you have Multiverse enabled.

answered Nov 03 '10 at 07:34

Scott Ritchie

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All is installed, yet no luck – Grayson Nov 03 '10 at 20:52
I've reinstalled the things and everything, yet no luck – Grayson Nov 03 '10 at 23:35
To be clear Totem is the program you're using that isn't working, yes? Do you have any PPAs enabled? – Scott Ritchie Nov 04 '10 at 09:56

Certain Media Wont Work

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