Comment 61 for bug 973014

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: [Bug 973014] Re: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, (libgstvideoparsersbad.so), causes a failure to decode many common video files encoded as AVC 1 Baseline - L2.1, Baseline - L1.1 & others

On 09/09/2012 10:17 PM, oroboros wrote:
> I apologize, but I followed the instructions in #57 to the detail,
> without problems (installed all the programs and compiled the gst-
> plugins-bad-0.10.23 without a hitch) and then tried playing a standard
> video file with the Movie Player program. It has the same issue, broken
> dependencies.
>
> I tried looking up the Synaptic Package Manager to see which package was
> broken but it couldn't find anything.
>
> Help!
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> I can playback the video files with mplayer2 or others, but not with the
> default application. Because the gstreamer/ffmpeg doesn't work, I can't
> convert video files to a different format.
>
> I see there are more recent versions of gst-plugins-bad here:
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/?C=M;O=D
>
Those instructions are of no value here, basically amount to just
removing the bad plugin. (installing the bad plugins where Totem, ect
won't find..
I'd suggest your issue is something else, maybe open a support thread at
ask ubuntu or ubuntu forums