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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

I've just discovered that Totem is not able to play any of the DivX-encoded movies here. Surely there are DivX and AVI plugins for GST 0.10 somewhere?

waltm

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From: alabama

Registered: 2006-03-21

Posts: 69

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Have you installed the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package?

Might want to try totem-xine which will work too.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Yep, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is installed. And totem-xine is not really usable right now, since some bizarre bug is causing it to redraw very very slowly and point-blank refuse to play things that I know Xine can handle.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg does it for me. I've downloaded th first of those movies, and it plays fine. Without the ffmpeg plugin, I get the usual message about missing plugins.

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Weird... I'm using totem-xine 1.4.0-2 (the last one available in the archlinux.org repo) and I tried the Singularity AVI, worked fine here...

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Aha... Here is my problem:

Totem could not play 'http://www.3dwallpaper.com/movies/singularity-divx.avi'.

Cannot play this file over the network. Try downloading it to disk first.

WTF?

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Aha... Here is my problem:

Totem could not play 'http://www.3dwallpaper.com/movies/singularity-divx.avi'.

Cannot play this file over the network. Try downloading it to disk first.

WTF?

Weird indeed, "totem http://www.3dwallpaper.com/movies/singularity-divx.avi" worked fine here... Maybe you need some GnomeVFS plugin or something?

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,488

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

I allways have problems to have totem play movies. Most times, it just plays the sound. Hm, might be enough for porn - allthough I think sound is not the strongest part of such a kind of moving pictures - but not enough for really interesting movies.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Aha... Here is my problem:

Totem could not play 'http://www.3dwallpaper.com/movies/singularity-divx.avi'.

Cannot play this file over the network. Try downloading it to disk first.

WTF?

Weird indeed, "totem http://www.3dwallpaper.com/movies/singularity-divx.avi" worked fine here... Maybe you need some GnomeVFS plugin or something?

It's installed too.  :cry:

I allways have problems to have totem play movies. Most times, it just plays the sound. Hm, might be enough for porn - allthough I think sound is not the strongest part of such a kind of moving pictures - but not enough for really interesting movies.

Don't have problems playing Ogg Theora movies, nor WMVs. Quicktime files sometimes do weird things though, and often aren't able to stream even if I can play them from the HDD. Similarly, the Singularity animation and other DivX AVIs play fine from the drive, but can't stream.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

jaboua - could you give us a list of the gstreamer plugins you have installed?

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

[jaboua@matrix ~]$ pacman -Qe|grep gst
gstreamer0.10-a52dec 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-aalib 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-amrnb 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-bz2 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-cairo 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-cdio 0.10.2-3
gstreamer0.10-dts 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-dv 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-dv1394 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-dvdread 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-esd 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-flac 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-jpeg 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-libcaca 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-libpng 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-libvisual 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-mms 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-musepack 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-neon 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-sidplay 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-speex 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-swfdec 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-theora 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-xvid 0.10.1-1

But I didn't use totem with gstreamer to play it, I used the xine version.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

I don't use the Xine version because a) having two multimedia engines installed is redundant and b) totem-xine suffers from a whole bunch of weird bugs - for example, it refuses to play WMVs that it shouldn't have a problem with, redraws the screen very slowly, and uses an incredible amount of CPU time.

As for packages I have installed:

[proteus@localhost ~]$ pacman -Qe | grep gst
gstreamer0.10-a52dec 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-aalib 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-amrnb 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-bz2 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-cairo 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-cdio 0.10.2-3
gstreamer0.10-dts 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-dv1394 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-dvdread 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-esd 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-faac 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-faad 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-flac 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.5-2
gstreamer0.10-jpeg 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-ladspa 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-lame 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-libcaca 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-libpng 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-libvisual 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-mms 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-musepack 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-neon 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-sdl 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-shout2 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-sidplay 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-speex 0.10.2-2
gstreamer0.10-swfdec 0.10.1-1
gstreamer0.10-theora 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-xvid 0.10.1-1
[proteus@localhost ~]$

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

I'm opposite - I use xine because gstreamer gave me more problems (It gave me some DVD problems a while ago, and I couldn't figure out how to make the proprietary codecs work with gstreamer as pitfdll only worked with gst 0.8 the last time I tried it... So wmv's were only playing audio with gst here)

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Anyone figured out what is happening? I've still got this problem.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Huh, this is funny... Totem seems capable of streaming WMVs perfectly. :?

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

The solution is:

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-ugly

Which installs /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstasf.so

WiLLiE

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 135

Re: GStreamer 0.10 can't play DivX AVIs

Too bad it took him almost 2 years to get that answer