If I play the following in my broswer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg
(well worth watching, by the way -- sand-art telling a family's story before, while and after Ukraine is bombed by German planes in WWII), I get the video and the sound fine, with the browser (iceweasel on Debian) using the Flash plugin. The sound effects are an essential part.
While this is going on, a file in /tmp builds up, with a name like
/tmp/FlashyfCGik
When it reaches the end, the movie pauses with option to replay. At this point the /tmp file is fully downloaded.
Now I copy it down to main storage, and rename it to have ".flv": e.g.
~/Downloads/FlashyfCGik.flv
NOW: If I play this with totem, I get the video but no sound. So let's try getting the browser to open it: File -> Open File -> ~/Downloads/FlashyfCGik.flv and it recognises it as Flash Video and offers to "open it with movie player (default)". There is no other option for opening it.
"Movie player" is an alias for totem ... so again it plays the video without the sound! Presumably if the browser used the Flash plugin for the local file I would get the sound as when viewing from the Web. But I can't see how to get that to happen.
Any suggestions? Thank, Ted.
PS: Warning -- you can get hooked on sand-art!
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On 13 June 2010 01:48, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
While this is going on, a file in /tmp builds up, with a name like
/tmp/FlashyfCGik
When it reaches the end, the movie pauses with option to replay. At this point the /tmp file is fully downloaded.
Now I copy it down to main storage, and rename it to have ".flv": e.g.
~/Downloads/FlashyfCGik.flv
NOW: If I play this with totem, I get the video but no sound.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, and the .flv works for me in VLC, while Totem asks if I want to search for the missing plug-in : MEG4-AAC. It appears to be available in the package "gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad".
Hope this helps, Tim.
On 13-Jun-10 09:54:33, Tim Green wrote:
On 13 June 2010 01:48, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
While this is going on, a file in /tmp builds up, with a name like
_/tmp/FlashyfCGik
When it reaches the end, the movie pauses with option to replay. At this point the /tmp file is fully downloaded.
Now I copy it down to main storage, and rename it to have ".flv": e.g.
_~/Downloads/FlashyfCGik.flv
NOW: If I play this with totem, I get the video but no sound.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, and the .flv works for me in VLC, while Totem asks if I want to search for the missing plug-in : MEG4-AAC. It appears to be available in the package "gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad".
Hope this helps, Tim.
Yes, I guess that's it! I originally did this on a Debian Etch, which has totem v. 2.16.5 which uses xine-lib version 1.1.2. That played the video, but gave no sound.
I copied the file over to a Debian Lenney which has totem 2.22.2 and uses gstreamer 0.10.10. This time it played fine with totem, sound and all.
So I guess that the audio library in the second case was up to Flash, while it wasn't in the first case.
Thanks! Ted.
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