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obysr
Asked: 2013-06-16 14:54:01 +0800 CST

How to play h264 encoded videos with Totem?

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I can play some mkv videos but some others can't play. Why? I don't want to install ubuntu-restricted-extras cause it brings Adobe Flash that has not been supported again and it is the old version. And it is not easy to uninstall.

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1 Answers

  1. You just have to install the gstreamer ugly plugins that includes the h264 codecs:

    ➜  ~  apt-cache show gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly | grep Gstreamer-Encoders
Gstreamer-Encoders: audio/AMR; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, layer=(int){ 3, 2 };
    video/x-h264, stream-format=(string){ avc, byte-stream },
    alignment=(string)au, profile=(string){ high-4:4:4, high-4:2:2, high-10,
    high, main, baseline, constrained-baseline, high-4:4:4-intra, high-4:2:2-intra, high-10-intra }

    So, just run:

    sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly

    or 

    sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

    and it's done. You don't need to install anything else, nor use the ubuntu-restricted-extras package.

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