Greetings All! Yesterday I downloaded (with automatic installation) the BBC iPlayer Desktop to a Debian Lennie; this also brought in with it the Adobe AIR (whatever that is).

I then used this to download a programme from BBC 2 TV.

On playback of the now downloaded main programme using the iPlayer, the video is OK, but the is no sound.

Investigation of what has been stored shows a biggish (300MB) MP4 file (30-min programme, 10MB/min).

There is also in an adjacent subdirectory a small MP3 file which plays the BBC2 logo (about 10 seconds); this one does play with sound. With iPlayer, it comes up, with sound, just before the main feature with no sound. So sound from the MP3, no sound from the MP4.

Playing the MP3 with totem is fine.

Attempts to play the MP4 with totem fail. Nothing happens, There is a message: The playback of this movie requires a audio/x-gst-fourcc-enca decoder video/x-gst-fourcc-encv decoder plugin which is not installed. and I cannot find this anywhere (probably built-in to iPlayer).

The sound system on this machine seems to be ALSA. This normally works fine.

Any suggestions for progress will be most welcome!

With thanks, Ted.

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