installing multimedia codecs itself always fails

[Xiaolin Liu]

Binary package hint: mplayer

When I want to play songs in mp3 format, the mplayer says it needs to find the codecs first, but it always reports that "the list of the applications is not available",and then it let me to try again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 28 07:40:58 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem
ProcCwd: /home/domn
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux LiveByLake-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Can you try with latest Ubuntu release?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.