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Jouke (digigram) wrote : Re: video doesn't play in impress in Kubuntu 10.04

I am having this problem too. I am also using 10.04 - 64 bit. Never had this problem with previous versions of ubuntu including 9.10

My movie also does not play in totem anymore, but it does play in vlc and mplayer. Totem tries to install the 'bad set' but than still can not play the movie. My movie was made with ffmpeg using mpeg4 encoding and an avi container.

guessed conclusion:
ffmpeg plugin for gstreamer is broken?

work around:
convert the movie to different format using on the commandline
$ffmpeg -i mymovie.avi mynewmovie.mpg

Than insert that in ooffice impress and it plays. (if it doesn't play it first in totem, to make sure the right codec is installed).