Can't play .MOV files ?

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Re: Can't play .MOV files ?

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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 ?

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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.
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Re: Can't play .MOV files ?

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Mmk. Go to a terminal and type

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sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Then find the lines

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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
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

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sudo apt-get update
and then

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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
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

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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.
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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