Totem Movie Player requires an additional plugin for this operation

[reedb]

Hi,

Under Ubuntu things were easier for me; I was able to play my media files using the Totem Movie Player that were shared on my Windows 7 PC.

Now, after a fresh install of Kubuntu 11.04 I can't play those shared files even though I installed Totem. See attached screen shot for error. If screen shot doesn't appear it says, "the following plugin is required: SMB protocol source".

I know this question has been around for a while and perhaps the only way to play samba shared media is by reading this post at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...em/+bug/119366 or https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/7857 .

KDE's Dragon doesn't work. The VLC player on Ubuntu/Kubuntu don't work because I believe it's not compiled with --enable-smb.

So, just curious. What do users of Kubuntu use to play multimedia files from a Microsoft Windows share?

Thanks for your thoughts.

[Snowhog]

Re: Totem Movie Player requires an additional plugin for this operation

Wecome to Kubuntu and KFN. In order to play restricted file formats, you need to install the required codecs. Easy enough to do. Open a console and paste the following and press enter:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

After that is done, then while still in the console, type:

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

Then, if you have a 32-bit CPU, type:

sudo apt-get install w32codecs

else, if you have a 64-bit CPU, type:

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

Reference: Medibuntu

[reedb]

Re: Totem Movie Player requires an additional plugin for this operation

Thanks but, I can play media files.

I just can't play them from a shared folder on a Windows 7 PC over the network using KDE.

I can play them from a Ubuntu PC but not from a Kubuntu machine.