Re: [Nolug] playing a movie

Also, going out on a limb here, since its a VOB file, is off a DVD?

Check out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDsif
it is.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Randy Wild <randywild1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> what is CLI?
>
> Where can I find video software for Ubuntu?
>
>
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> *From:* Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> *To:* nolug@nolug.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2012 8:11 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Nolug] playing a movie
>
> On 07/10/2012 07:34 PM, Randy Wild wrote:
> > Having trouble playing a movie file after upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to
> > 11.04.
> > The first error was "an error occurred - Gstreamer encountered a general
> > resource error".
>
> That's unhelpfully generic.
>
> > I fixed that by going to Ubuntu Software Center and installing all
> > plugins related to GStreamer and the error went away.
> >
> > The current problem is when I try to play a movie file, Video_TS.VOB
> > 156.0 Kb, MPEG (Open with Totem Movie Player v2.32.0), it just sits in
> > PAUSE and won't play. The first screen of the movie is showing, but it
> > stays on PAUSE.
> > Also shows (Streaming) in parenthesis. The file is on my hard drive,
> > not on the Internet, so there should be no streaming involved.
> > I tried a second movie file (also on the hard drive) in case the first
> > was corrupt. Same thing happened.
> >
> > Details: 999.5 RAM, Pentium 4.
> >
>
> Rule 1: when having audio/video troubles: try with some other software.
>
> Rule 1a: descend to the CLI. You'll usually see better error message
> that way.
>
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