REGRESSION: can't play mov files

[Teo]

In Ubuntu 10.10 I used to be able to play mov files in totem (which is what mov files open in by default when you double-click them in Nautilus).

Now in 11.10 I can't. When mplayer searches for the "suitable plugin", it says it can't find "quicktime demuxer".

By the way the "search for suitable plugin" is a joke, isn't it? EVERY time I try to open a file that mplayer is unable to open and it searches for suitable plugin, it NEVER finds it. There has never been a single time it found and installed the suitable plugin.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: mplayer 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn33713-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 26 14:14:12 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mplayer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-07 (49 days ago)
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.35-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Tags: oneiric running-unity
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-07 (52 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare vboxusers video

[Teo (teo1978)]

It's totem, not mplayer (i thought "Movie Player" was mplayer)

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Could you please run 'apport-collect 922069' in a terminal? This will attach the correct debug info to this report (as your original bug was filed against mplayer, the debug info is for mplayer currently). Thanks.

[Teo (teo1978)]

apport information

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thanks for the info (although it unfortunately did not include infos about plugins etc...). To sort out whether it is anything totem-specific or (as I expect) a problem in the gstreamer backend, could you please install the "gstreamer-tools" package and run:

gst-launch playbin uri=file:///usr/share/checkbox/data/video/Quicktime_Video.mov

Does this work or not? If it doesn't, what error message does it give? Thanks again.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Oh, actually it does not seem to be necessary... I just found the bug that seems to apply to your situation (bug #856988) -- it seems to be a problem that only occurs after upgrades from natty to oneiric. Could you try whether running
rm -r ~/.gstreamer-0.10
fixes the issue for you?

[Teo (teo1978)]

Yes that did work! thanks.

However, the thumbnail preview and properties still don't work in Nautilus. Or maybe I have to reboot?