Video pauses. Will not play.

Tom,

Thanks for the advice. I'm new to the Ubuntu community as well as Linux in general, so this is all new to me and a little foreign. I have been working through the medibuntu worksheet and have dowloaed some packages but I think I'm missing a step....actually opening or linking what I have downloaded to the program or software I'm trying to run. I'll give these steps a try and let you know what happens. Thanks again
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Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:32:38 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Question #107223]: Video pauses. Will not play.

Your question #107223 on totem in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+question/107223

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Tom proposed the following answer:
Hi :)

Have you worked through the medibuntu worksheet to sort out most multimedia issues yet?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Also have you tried various different movies from different sources and
different file-extensions (eg avi, mkv, wmv etc)? Please let us know
some of the ones you have tried already.

Can you open Synaptic Package Manager and install a couple of other
media-players? Mplayer and VLC are fairly light-weight and pretty good.
Sometimes installing mplayer brings in extra dependecies which fixes
totem too ;)

System - Adminstration - Synaptic

Errr, have you checked the movie files are a decent length? If they
copied across incorrectly then that might be why. Also if you are
playing over a network then is network speed and cpu fast enough to
cope? Are you playing High Def movies? or have you had the same result
with older movies?

Sorry so many questions! Hopefully working through the Medibuntu worksheet sorts most problems so good luck with that :)
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Hi :)

Good to hear another new person joining in :)) Welcome in :)

When you download and install programs or packages they are automatically found & used by all relevant programs. You aren't missing a step.

Taking a simple example if you download & install a new font then if you opened OpenOffice, a text-editor or Instant Messenger the font would be there for you to use in all of them. If you installed "cheese" and had a camera plugged in then the Instant Messenger and Gimp (for editing pictures) & also any video editing thing would find the camera without anything extra required.

Package Managers do all the work of downloading, installing & updating all the programs & packages on your system. They also ask permission before doing anything such as downloading "dependencies" which are usually libraries, codecs, drivers and things the program depends on in order to work. You can reject them but then the program you are installing wouldn't work. At least not until after clicking on "Fix broken packages" and allowing the dependencies.

I hope this help ease your mind a little :) Just try seeing if playing those movie files works any better now you have doen the Medibuntu worksheet. Let us know how that goes.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Thanks again. So to clarify, when I cut and and paste commands from the ubuntu work sheet or documentation into terminal, it takes care of the rest? The programs or packages that I installed should be ready to go? Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:48:45 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Question #107223]: Video pauses. Will not play.

Your question #107223 on totem in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+question/107223

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hi :)

Good to hear another new person joining in :)) Welcome in :)

When you download and install programs or packages they are
automatically found & used by all relevant programs. You aren't missing
a step.

Taking a simple example if you download & install a new font then if you
opened OpenOffice, a text-editor or Instant Messenger the font would be
there for you to use in all of them. If you installed "cheese" and had a
camera plugged in then the Instant Messenger and Gimp (for editing
pictures) & also any video editing thing would find the camera without
anything extra required.

Package Managers do all the work of downloading, installing & updating
all the programs & packages on your system. They also ask permission
before doing anything such as downloading "dependencies" which are
usually libraries, codecs, drivers and things the program depends on in
order to work. You can reject them but then the program you are
installing wouldn't work. At least not until after clicking on "Fix
broken packages" and allowing the dependencies.

I hope this help ease your mind a little :) Just try seeing if playing those movie files works any better now you have doen the Medibuntu worksheet. Let us know how that goes.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Yup :)

Hi :)

I am intrigued now. Did it help? Btw when you post into here it is better if you can follow the links into the thread at LaunchPad. Don't worry, different places work slightly differently and most of us did something like this at the start too

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

Wooohooo :))
Congrats and really welcome to linux-land now, especially the Ubuntu corner of it. Usually it's best if people post a whole load of different questions about different things so that the "Solved Answers" database is more useful to people for any particular problem :)

Congrats and regards from
Tom :)