there is audio but no video

Asked by ejones100

Binary package hint: totem

When I try to play a video on the totem movie player it plays audio but no video.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 16 02:44:09 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem file:///home/eric/Videos/Paul%20Mooney
ProcCwd: /home/eric
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux Craig 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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This question was originally filed as bug #284224.

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ejones100 (ejones1338) said :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) said :
#2

the issue is likely a codec one, changing to an user question rather than a bug

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Shanmuhanathan T (shanmuha) said :
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Can you please try 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras' on the command line (in a terminal window) and see if it resolves the problem?

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