Can't play .MOV files ?
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Re: Can't play .MOV files ?
Did you open the repositories yet to use even the closed source ones? Make sure you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, and gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse.
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Re: Can't play .MOV files ?
As schanker21 says : open the file manager (Computer icon on your desktop), navigate to where you downloaded the .mov files and double click them. They should just play - they do here.
Re: Can't play .MOV files ?
Mmk. Go to a terminal and type
Then find the lines
And make sure there is no # in front of them. So...
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
needs to turn into
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
Save it and close. Now in the terminal type
and then
If they install then great. Now try opening the .mov file with Totem or something other than VLC and see how it works. If all it says when you tried to install the last line is
Then you're going to need a different solution.
EDIT:
Also, if you're converting videos in the future, use SUPER. It works amazing, and you can do anything to anything. Including stick formats in containers that shouldn't normally be allowed.
It's at the near bottom of this page:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
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sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
needs to turn into
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
Save it and close. Now in the terminal type
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
EDIT:
Also, if you're converting videos in the future, use SUPER. It works amazing, and you can do anything to anything. Including stick formats in containers that shouldn't normally be allowed.
It's at the near bottom of this page:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html