Jaunty wiped out video players

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Install the w32 (or w64 if you use 64bit)

as well as run:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-restricted-extras

w32 already installed; now reinstalled also re-reinstalled ubuntu-restricted-extras. Audio only on a couple of files. quick flash of both on some other before players crash. nothing but black others.

Pardon my frustrations, but it is still not working

If I open a file with kmplayer i get audio only. If I then re-open with another player (while the kmplayer is open) I get both video and audio, on the second player (any) but only if I first open with kmplayer. Ican close the kmplayer and the second one will keep going. I apparently have all the codecs, I think there is something in the player startup that is amiss.

Still no dvd palyback. I also noticed that although the GUI is Jaunty, if I interrupt boot process only 8.10 Interpid is shown as O/S.

At least I'm not the only one.
Seems this person having same issue
Answered Question #69591, asked 20 hours ago by Holtti

I can get it to go sort of. If I use xine or xfmedia to open one file, I get audio only. If I leave that running and then open a file with vlc it will play at the same time, but with video as well. then I close the fist file and have the video I want to play playing

So i have reinstalled all ther codecs, the software, etc. etc. Gone through the Medibuntu worksheet a few times as well. Still no playback without several convoluted steps. I think this really is a bug with Jaunty, not some user error.

I got open movie to work by changing the gstreamer properties from "auto" to "no Xv". Still no VLC, though. gstreamer told me there were plugins missing, but plays now.

I got some to work, still no Commercial DVd's, No vlc. got the following message fro Terminal

millius@millius:~$ gstreamer-properties
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'glimagesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lmjpegsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'qcamsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdmon'
The program 'gstreamer-properties' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 61 error_code 11 request_code 132 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Opened Vlc from applications, went to tools:preferences:video and set the output to x11. working now also set gstreamer to "no Xv" from terminal (gstreamer-properties)