Totem Movie Player doesn't play movies, just sticks at first frame

[[C]hicken [G] od]

I meant all the possible ones. I left no stone unturned so I ran every
possible codec that I could get my hands on.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:01:36AM +0800, [C]hicken [G] od wrote:
> >    On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Chris G <[2]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> >      When I try and play AVI files with totem it just sits showing the
> first
> >      frame as though it's paused there but it's not paused.  Clicking
> >      pause/play does nothing.
> >
> >      I can drag the Time slider across and the movie plays, it just
> doesn't
> >      seem able to play by itself, any ideas?
> >
> >    Have you tried installing the codecs from [1]medibuntu.org?
> >
> If I knew what "the codecs" meant I might try it!  :-)
>
> Searching for codecs in synaptic leaves me none the wiser, there's no
> particular set of files that looks like 'codecs' to me.
>
> In addition, since the movie plays OK when I drag the slider across
> surely the necessary codec is available otherwise it wouldn't be
> possible to decode the video.
>
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