Totem - Only sound track + visualization, no video track on video file

**capnez** · 08-07-2005

The problem:
I recently installed Totem via apt-get, but when I try to play any video file it only plays the sound track of that file, displays the corresponding visualization to that sound track, but does not show the video track.
I have no installed VLC via apt-get, too, and it displays video files just fine with no problems. However, I do not like VLC and would like to stick with Totem. Does anybody know the problem and how to fix it?

Clues:
When starting Totem in the console with an .ogg Vorbis video file, I get the following output:

Code:

totem file.ogg
libhal.c 2282 &#58; Error sending msg&#58; Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist
** Message&#58; don't know how to handle video/x-theora

The setup:
Debian GNU/Linux testing-branch with all updates as of Sun., Aug. 7 2005
Totem version 0.100 with GStreamer version 0.8.10
VLC version 0.8.2-svn Janus

Thank you very much for your help!

**LondoJowo** · 08-07-2005

You may need to install the latest Xine libraries (libxine).
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

**capnez** · 08-07-2005

Installing the following packages (which came closest to the name "libxine") did not solve the problem:
libxine1
libspeex1 (as a dependency)

Nevertheless, I thank you for your effort.

**LondoJowo** · 08-08-2005

He the deb file for libspeex1.

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/d...i386&type=main

**capnez** · 08-09-2005

libspeex1 was already installed as a package required by libxine1 - this does not solve the problem.
Thank you for searching out the package. :-)

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