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Unable to play any songs or movie

Asked by anirbanphys

I've installed Ubuntu 8.10 recently. All was fine. But today I've faced a problem,related with playing sound.To play a track with vlc or movie player I've seen the following message

atin@atin-desktop:/media/disk/Songs/Western/Songs/Legendary Songs of Don McLean$ vlc 05\ Crying.mp3
VLC media player 0.9.4 Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.4 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintaner-mode' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool' '--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=1ubuntu3' '--disable-update-check' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk' '--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-arts' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=libxul-plugin' '--disable-kde' '--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--disable-slp' '--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-x264' '--enable-faad' '--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--enable-mediacontrol-bindings' '--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libdca' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-dv' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.

Though I've installed all suitable codecs.
Please help.

Thanks

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Might be not reltaed but, can you get me the output of terminal command:

locale

Thank you

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anirbanphys (anirbanphys) said : 		#2

atin@atin-desktop:~$ locale
LANG=en_IN
LC_CTYPE="en_IN"
LC_NUMERIC="en_IN"
LC_TIME="en_IN"
LC_COLLATE="en_IN"
LC_MONETARY="en_IN"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IN"
LC_PAPER="en_IN"
LC_NAME="en_IN"
LC_ADDRESS="en_IN"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_IN"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IN"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IN"
LC_ALL=
This is the outputs.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Are you playing song from a removable usb driver...?
can you copy and paste the file into Desktop and play that mp3 form there...?

Thank you

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anirbanphys (anirbanphys) said : 		#4

I was playing from my hard drive and now according to your suggestion I tried to play it from desktop.But nothing happen. I can't heard any sound.Though the VLC window is opening.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Close vlc drag and drop the mp3 song icon on the vlc icon can you play that song...?

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anirbanphys (anirbanphys) said : 		#6

I'm unable to listen any sound.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#7

You was able to listen mp3 from your Ubuntu before...?
if yes
Can you right click with mouse on that mp3 and can you open with a different player...

Thank you

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anirbanphys (anirbanphys) said : 		#8

I did it before but nothing happen,only the corresponding window i opening.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#9

Play mp3 and dvd under Ubuntu

First please install https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

You need to have extra repositories enabled..

Please first enable the multiverse repository:

Open System → Administration → Software sources → [ Tab Ubuntu software ]
enable "Software restrictecd by copyright or legal issue ( multiverse )"
Close and confirm the repository reload.

Type the following command in a terminal (applications → accessories → terminal)

sudo aptitude install vlc

To get better dvd playback first you need to add the medibuntu http://www.medibuntu.org/ repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
here howto add https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu here the medibuntu available software list http://packages.medibuntu.org/

Then to install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 libdvdcss2
sudo aptitude install non-free-codecs gstreamer0.10-pitfdll w32codecs ubuntu-restricted-extras

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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anirbanphys (anirbanphys) said : 		#10

ya , it help me.thanks