Some Video Formats Not Playing On Ubuntu.

[Richb2004v2]

One aspect of many that I have always found very impressive with Linux is the ability to quickly auto-locate required software to view video and listen to music. So I was a little surprised and disappointed when I downloaded a few movies and Movie Player failed to find a plugin (I think that's what they are called). Mplayer also couldn't manage it. In the past it has never failed to play what ever I've tried to open. Could someone either recommend an alternative video player or suggest a fix for this problem?

Thanks.

[thaimite]

One aspect of many that I have always found very impressive with Linux is the ability to quickly auto-locate required software to view video and listen to music. So I was a little surprised and disappointed when I downloaded a few movies and Movie Player failed to find a plugin (I think that's what they are called). Mplayer also couldn't manage it. In the past it has never failed to play what ever I've tried to open. Could someone either recommend an alternative video player or suggest a fix for this problem?

Thanks.

Interesting.

What is the file type / extension? Of course you can always convert the file, but maybe like me, you would rather have the correct codec and not have o go through this extra stage

It is also worth noting that formats like 'AVI' are only container formats and a useful free tool like MediaInfo (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en) is required to give more information as to the actual encoding for sound and video to be able to find the required codec

[niller74]

Check this.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

[wimpy]

Check this.

https://help.ubuntu....unity/Medibuntu

Or you could use Mint (based on Ubuntu), which plays pretty much everything right out of the box.

[dave_boo]

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

[niller74]

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

I don't see anywhere this person state he in on a 64bit arch, so unless you know something I don't recommending a 64 bit package may not work.

Once again I will urge you to read the link I posted and get the correct repositories and packages installed depending on your system.

Cheers

[dave_boo]

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

I don't see anywhere this person state he in on a 64bit arch, so unless you know something I don't recommending a 64 bit package may not work.

Once again I will urge you to read the link I posted and get the correct repositories and packages installed depending on your system.

Cheers

If you'd been following his other posts you'd have seen that previous suggestions such as yours largely fell on deaf ears. Thus the terse message and if push came to shove I would have simply found the 32 bit *.deb online for him and created a single wget/chmod/dpkg for him to install it......

[Richb2004v2]

One aspect of many that I have always found very impressive with Linux is the ability to quickly auto-locate required software to view video and listen to music. So I was a little surprised and disappointed when I downloaded a few movies and Movie Player failed to find a plugin (I think that's what they are called). Mplayer also couldn't manage it. In the past it has never failed to play what ever I've tried to open. Could someone either recommend an alternative video player or suggest a fix for this problem?

Thanks.

Interesting.

What is the file type / extension? Of course you can always convert the file, but maybe like me, you would rather have the correct codec and not have o go through this extra stage

It is also worth noting that formats like 'AVI' are only container formats and a useful free tool like MediaInfo (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en) is required to give more information as to the actual encoding for sound and video to be able to find the required codec

I installed that piece of software but I can't work out where it has installed too on my system. I think I have a similar tool in my XP system thought. As soon as I figure out what type of AVI file it is I will post.

[Richb2004v2]

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

I don't see anywhere this person state he in on a 64bit arch, so unless you know something I don't recommending a 64 bit package may not work.

Once again I will urge you to read the link I posted and get the correct repositories and packages installed depending on your system.

Cheers

I tried the code in the terminal and whilst it seemed to cause a lot of activity the video file still won't play.

Thanks for the help though. It won't play via Miro either. I'm not sure if that tells us anything.

I also tried the code from the guy with something stuck up his ar*e and that didn't work either.

Edited July 9, 2010 by Richb2004v2

[thaimite]

One aspect of many that I have always found very impressive with Linux is the ability to quickly auto-locate required software to view video and listen to music. So I was a little surprised and disappointed when I downloaded a few movies and Movie Player failed to find a plugin (I think that's what they are called). Mplayer also couldn't manage it. In the past it has never failed to play what ever I've tried to open. Could someone either recommend an alternative video player or suggest a fix for this problem?

Thanks.

Interesting.

What is the file type / extension? Of course you can always convert the file, but maybe like me, you would rather have the correct codec and not have o go through this extra stage

It is also worth noting that formats like 'AVI' are only container formats and a useful free tool like MediaInfo (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en) is required to give more information as to the actual encoding for sound and video to be able to find the required codec

I installed that piece of software but I can't work out where it has installed too on my system. I think I have a similar tool in my XP system thought. As soon as I figure out what type of AVI file it is I will post.

Having had MediaInfo on my windows PC, hence my recommendation. Like you too installed it on Ubuntu for the first time earlier today.

First I went to this page and downloaded the 4 files (Libzen0, libmediainfo0, CLI, GUI (I wanted both command line and GUI formats.

Then I installed the programs in the order I downloaded them and it installed under 'Applications, Sound and Video' menu and worked first time.

My reason for installing MediaInfo was to get my Media Jukebox for the Popcorn hour working under Ubuntu, that is the next stage.

In my earlier post I assumed that you had the basic codec packages installed as recommended by others.

So far I have not has anything that will not play under Ubuntu with either VLC or the standard movie player

[dave_boo]

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

I don't see anywhere this person state he in on a 64bit arch, so unless you know something I don't recommending a 64 bit package may not work.

Once again I will urge you to read the link I posted and get the correct repositories and packages installed depending on your system.

Cheers

I tried the code in the terminal and whilst it seemed to cause a lot of activity the video file still won't play.

Thanks for the help though. It won't play via Miro either. I'm not sure if that tells us anything.

I also tried the code from the guy with something stuck up his ar*e and that didn't work either.

You're too kind.....

Did you simply try right click the file in your 'File Explorer', choose "Properties" and click the right-most tab (helpfully labelled "Audio/Video) and look for the section that says "Codecs"? I'm sure that were you to provide that information we could help you better....

[thaimite]

You're too kind.....

Did you simply try right click the file in your 'File Explorer', choose "Properties" and click the right-most tab (helpfully labelled "Audio/Video) and look for the section that says "Codecs"?

Coming from XP, I was not aware of this helpful tip

Thanks.

[Richb2004v2]

I tried downloading VLC. It won't play on there either.

I successfully installed Mediainfo on my second attempt, thanks. It tells me it is an 'Xvid_XOR.avi' file.

I think there is something wrong with the files themselves. There are several files in a series. Some of them play and some do not. When I right click over the ones that do not they don't give any info on the codecs. They either say N/A or unknown and don't have a section for Video. With the episodes that play the information is there. For the ones that play the video codec is 'XVID MPEG-4'.

There must be something on the files, as they are 350mb each, but obviously there is something wrong. As I say, in the past like everyone else everything has played on Ubuntu and auto-updated the codecs required.

I guess I will have to find another download of my series.

Thanks for the help and sorry if I led you on a wild goose chase.

Also I've just discovered that with Mediainfo the episodes that play give a lot of information. With the ones that do not Mediainfo gives next to no information. They must be broken.

Edited July 9, 2010 by Richb2004v2

[thaimite]

Glad you have found the problem, and even if you wern't able to get the files to play, we all learnt something.