On 20 January 2013 18:19, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > >> Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch >> all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to >> upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video >> file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message >> that says: >> >> Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation >> >> The following plugins are required: >> >> * MPEG Video decoder >> * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder >> >> Do you want to search for these now? >> >> [Cancel] [Search] >> >> I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't >> find the required plugins. >> >> It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs >> >> $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer >> gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 >> phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64 >> PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 >> gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 >> >> All of which leads me to two questions. >> >> 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos? > > Have you tried adding missing gstreamer1 plug-in packages? > see: yum list gstreamer1\* Thanks for the advice. I hadn't noticed that there were gstreamer and gstreamer1 packages on my system. Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And that seems to have done the trick. >> 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this? > > Totem in F18 is based on GStreamer v1.0.x, while you've listed also packages > for GStreamer v0.10.x. Fedup cannot know if Totem needs additional plugins > from repos like RPMFusion. Ah. Yes, I see that now. I assume there's a good reason for the version number to be in the name of the packages rather than in the version number :-/ Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave@xxxxxxxxxxx http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
