Re: The playback of this movie requires a A-Law decoder plugin which is not installed.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:09:57 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

>> Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed?
> 
> Yes, apparently it is there:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
>   Installed: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
>   Candidate: 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2
>   Version table:
>      0.10.21-1 0
>         100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>      0.10.18-1 0
>         200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
>  *** 0.10.8-4.1~lenny2 0
>         500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages 500
>         http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages 100
>         /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> $ gst-typefind-0.10 /tmp/bla.wav
> /tmp/bla.wav - audio/x-wav

I've always found annoying to deal with media codecs, regardless the OS 
being used, so when I encounter a file that "it resists" to play, go to 
MPlayer/SMPlayer or VideoLAN which embed most of the codecs within the 
program itself.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón