I am running Ubuntu 10.04 with ubuntu-resticted-extra installed. When I play .mkv with the default player, totem it causes the player to stop suddenly without any warning after a random amount of time!
Anybody else is having this problem? Is there any workaround other than installing vlc??
What I want to know is, Is it a bug in gstreamer? or I'm the only one facing this issue!
Its a BUG....in the meantime...
Install VLC
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Open Synaptic application
Click on System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have an universe repository activated.
Search for vlc and install it, as well as vlc-plugin-pulse. You may also want to install mozilla-plugin-vlc.
If you are interested in streaming or transcoding, you should additionnally install libavcodec-extra-52 from a multiverse repository. Command line way
You need to check that a universe mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc
Try updating your Gstreamer.
Else you can try Mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
Install gstreamer-ffmpeg. This should give you better playback with .mkv files. If it does not, then use another player (other than totem), such as VLC, or GNOME-Mplayer.
The above error is happening because there is no libde265 plugin, run the following and it will work. I just did it:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-libde265
