missing plugins/decoders

[MisterDood]

So I was listening to music one day, and I decided that I wanted to watch a video on my laptop, so I put in the DVD, click play, and suddenly I'm missing the Windows Media Player 8 decoder. I try some of my other videos (of different formats, including .FLV and .AVI), and they're all missing different decoders. Also after that, and ONLY after that, RhythmBox can't find the decoder for .WMA files, yet it still plays .mp3, .ogg, .flac etc. I snooped around and downloaded various gstreamer plugins, and when that didn't work, I tried reinstalling all of them. Still no luck.

In short, I think part of my decoder and plugins folder got corrupted or deleted. Any help for me?

P.S. VLC will play everything still. This is something I find bizarre.

Thanks in advance.

[supermanisdeady]

did you try this :

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

[daark.child]

Take a look here for details on how to play restricted formats.

[MisterDood]

did you try this :

I tried that a while back, and I tried that again just to make sure. I already have it :c

And @ daark:

I saw that page already, and tried what it said. Did nothing really.

Thanks for trying though.

It keeps saying that I'm missing H.264 decoder and a lot of Windows decoders.

[supermanisdeady]

try this fedorasolved.org/multimedia-solutions/win32-codecs

[zenwalker]

try this fedorasolved.org/multimedia-solutions/win32-codecs

Thanks! I was looking for this a short while ago!

[MisterDood]

try this fedorasolved.org/multimedia-solutions/win32-codecs

Well, I tried that because it looks exactly like what I was asking for. I get it and try to run tar on it just like it says on the page, and it starts reading the package. Towards the end, it tells me this:

all-20100303/qtmlClient.dll
all-20100303/QuickTime.qts
all-20100303/QuickTimeEssentials.qtx

bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
	perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
	Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I'm also trying to fix a new laptop I got that's having GRUB problems. Might post that soon.

[zenwalker]

Drats!
That is the same error message I got from rpmfusion, I think.

[supermanisdeady]

Well, I tried that because it looks exactly like what I was asking for. I get it and try to run tar on it just like it says on the page, and it starts reading the package. Towards the end, it tells me this:

all-20100303/qtmlClient.dll
all-20100303/QuickTime.qts
all-20100303/QuickTimeEssentials.qtx

bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
	perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
	Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I'm also trying to fix a new laptop I got that's having GRUB problems. Might post that soon.

then re-download it again... and try... or you can choose p7zip-full to extract that...
because i'm success when following that tutorial to my fedora

[daark.child]

Another possible solution is to add the medibuntu repository to your package sources and install the win32 codecs, non free codecs and other restricted codecs from there.