totem could not play a video file

debianlam · 04-30-2008, 10:25 AM

hi
i wanted to look a RAM file (video format ) but totem could not play the file and the following error message appears :
Video codec real Video 4.0 is not handled.you might need to install additional plugins to be able to play some types of movies
where can i find that plugins and how install it on debian

help = welcome
debianlam

farslayer · 05-01-2008, 09:38 AM

Well I would suggest trying mplayer or VLC as a media player. I find a LOT of media files that Totem is unable to play.

update your sources list to include the debian-multimedia repository.

Code:

it-etch:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

Install the GPG keyring for the repository to get rid of the unsigned packages warning

aptitude update
aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring

Install the windows32 codecs, and mplayer or vlc, or BOTH. My preference is for vlc, although a lot of people prefer mplayer. I just install both and if I run into a media file that gives me grief I try all the differnt media players until I find one that works.

aptitude install w32codecs mplayer mozilla-mplayer vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html