Totem and Banshee won't play certain files, Kaffeine and SMplayer work fine

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Totem and Banshee don’t seem to want to play .avi files, Kaffeine, SMplayer work perfectly though. I followed the Multimedia guide, and switched system packages to Packman.

Here’s the output from a terminal when trying to play an .avi file:

phrhaf@linux-xg2s:~> totem
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder)
** Message: PackageKit: xid = 102760452
** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: XVID MPEG-4 decoder
** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer0.10(decoder-video/x-xvid)

Didn’t have this error in 11.2.

For a flv file:

socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Sorenson Spark Video decoder|decoder-video/x-flash-video (Sorenson Spark Video decoder)
** Message: PackageKit: xid = 31457284
** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: Sorenson Spark Video decoder
** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer0.10(decoder-video/x-flash-video)

I use Kaffeine almost always so it’s not a big problem, just curious as to where the error comes from.

Thanks

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Two Gstreamer based apps complain about “Missing plugin” and the non-Gstreamer based apps work fine… Seems evident that you don’t have the GStreamer’s plugins installed. They are the gstreamer-0_10-plugins-XXX, from Packman, and gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg… just install them.

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Hi, thanks a lot for your help, I was missing gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg. Perhaps it could be added to the new user multimedia guide.