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Plug-in(s) for totem

Asked by Pierre Techeur

How to obtain the plug-in(s?) needed for totem ?
the programe says my pc do'nt posses them.
Many thankds

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Pierre Techeur (p-techeur) said : 		#1

how to obtain plug-ins needed for totem

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Stu Hood (stuhood) said : 		#2

The default Totem install uses Gstreamer .10 as its backend, and so to play other formats you will need different plugin packs for Gstreamer. If you haven't already, you will need to enable the Universe and Multiverse repositories for apt.

>>1: Enable the Universe repository; Open up Synaptic Package
>> Manager, System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager.
>> Enter in your Password. Click on Settings, and select Repositories.
>> Click Add. Then put check marks in the box for Community
>> maintained (Universe) and while you're at it, may as well put
>> one in Non-free (Multiverse)

Once you have those enabled, you can use Synaptic to search for "gstreamer-0.10". Install all the plugin packs (base, bad, ugly, ffmpeg).

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Stu Hood (stuhood) said : 		#3

Aha... I found another good explanation of the process here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

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