CentOS - Jan 2010 - totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the
message: "A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this
stream, but not installed."

After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of
the problem to the package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

# rpm --rebuilddb
# rpm -q libdvdread
libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
# rpm -i gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        libdvdread.so.3 is needed by
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386

And, after erasing libdvdread and trying to install both packages in one
command, I get pretty much the same contradictory error message:

# rpm -iv libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        libdvdread.so.3 is needed by
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386

There's no problem installing libdvdread by itself:
# rpm -iv libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
# rpm -q libdvdread
libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5


So how are people getting totem to play movies?

tia.


-- 
Without music, life would be a mistake.
	--Friedrich Nietzsche

On 01/24/2010 12:47 PM ken wrote:
> When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the
> message: "A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play
this
> stream, but not installed."
> 
> After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of
> the problem to the package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> 
> # rpm --rebuilddb
> # rpm -q libdvdread
> libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
> # rpm -i gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libdvdread.so.3 is needed by
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386
> 
> And, after erasing libdvdread and trying to install both packages in one
> command, I get pretty much the same contradictory error message:
> 
> # rpm -iv libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libdvdread.so.3 is needed by
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386
> 
> There's no problem installing libdvdread by itself:
> # rpm -iv libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
> Preparing packages for installation...
> libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
> # rpm -q libdvdread
> libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
> 
> 
> So how are people getting totem to play movies?
> 
> tia.
Also:

# rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-ugly
package gstreamer-plugins-ugly is not installed
# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly
...
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has
depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3 is needed by package
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3 is needed by package
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
....

So is there an upgrade to gstreamer-plugins-ugly which looks for the
upgraded libdvdread?

Am 24.01.2010 18:47, schrieb ken:
> 
> When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the
> message: "A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play
this
> stream, but not installed."
> 
> After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of
> the problem to the package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> 
> # rpm --rebuilddb
> # rpm -q libdvdread
> libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
> # rpm -i gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libdvdread.so.3 is needed by
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386
> 
> And, after erasing libdvdread and trying to install both packages in one
> command, I get pretty much the same contradictory error message:
> 
> # rpm -iv libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libdvdread.so.3 is needed by
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.i386
> 
> There's no problem installing libdvdread by itself:
> # rpm -iv libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
> Preparing packages for installation...
> libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
> # rpm -q libdvdread
> libdvdread-4.1.3-1.el5
> 
> 
> So how are people getting totem to play movies?
> 
> tia.
You problem is to mix packages from different repositories. This causes
non matched dependencies. As the install if gstreamer-plugins-ugly
states it misses a specific library version. The libdvdread package you
are hand installing does not provide that one.

It is much easier to properly setup repositories using yum. Details are
documented within the CentOS wiki and on the rpmforge project site as well.

Alexander

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
wrote:
>
> So how are people getting totem to play movies?
>
I've never been able to get totem to work at all on any of my CentOS
machines.  There's some magic involved that I don't know.

I use xine and mplayer, and they handle most everything, thought xine
is better for movies.  Thus, I am not a totem user.

Good luck.

mhr

ken wrote:
> 
> 
> So how are people getting totem to play movies?
> 
> tia.
> 
> 
I hope no one crucifies me for suggesting closed source, but I got tired 
of the issues with gstreamer-plugins-whatever and just purchased the 
fluendo codec pack.

http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/

Not only does it "just work" (in both CentOS 5.x and Ubuntu Jaunty)
but
it works better than the plugins-bad and plugins-ugly ever did for me, 
especially for windows media video.

The only drawback is that they don't have an AC3 decoder. My 
understanding is that in actuality they do, but are still having trouble 
getting licensing worked out with Dolby.

I solve that issue with (only ever is an issue for me with mkv files) by 
using the following shell script:

#!/bin/bash

base=`echo $1 |sed -e s?"\.mkv$"?""?`

vidTrack=`mkvinfo ${base}.mkv |grep "Track type" |grep -n
"video" |cut
-d":" -f1`
audTrack=`mkvinfo ${base}.mkv |grep "Track type" |grep -n
"audio" |cut
-d":" -f1`

mkvextract tracks ${base}.mkv ${vidTrack}:${base}.h264
mkvextract tracks ${base}.mkv ${audTrack}:${base}.ac3

a52dec -o wavdolby ${base}.ac3 > ${base}.wav
rm -f ${base}.ac3
normalize-audio ${base}.wav


ffmpeg -i ${base}.h264 -i ${base}.wav -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -vcodec copy 
-acodec libfaac -ab 128k -y -f mp4 ${base}.mp4

rm -f ${base}.h264 ${base}.wav

-=-=-

It also doesn't play DVD's but I use xine for that, the few times I do 
need to do it (fluendo sells a dvd player too, that does do AC3, but 
reviews I've read on their dvd player are poor. The plugins though work 
well, very well)