codec does not seem to be working for multimedia files!!!! plz help me quickly!!

[fedex]

hello sir/ mam,
i am unable to play video with any player and audio is working only with VLC
and AUDACIOUS rest all namely codene , kaffeine, amarock , mplayer are installed but they are not working.
i went to help deck of ubuntu . from there i downloaded or i used the command to download codec or whatever it was which was remarked ' restricted media player files " but still i am unable to run the media files .
what is the solution .
plz help me .
thanx

[Rog131]

Re: codec does not seem to be working for multimedia files!!!! plz help me quick

1) Hardware/ Hardware settings

Xorg.0.log is log file for X Windowing Server. It is in /var/log/.

K > System > KSystemLog

or

Just looking errors:

:~$ grep "(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Just looking warnings:

:~$ grep "(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Xvinfo in the konsole:

:~$ xvinfo

From X video extension
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_video_extension

The X video extension, often abbreviated as XVideo or Xv, is a video output mechanism for the X Window System. Its main use today is to rescale video playback in hardware (namely in the hardware of the graphics card), in order to enlarge a given video or to watch it in full screen mode. Without XVideo, this scaling would have to be done in software, which is possible but requires a considerable amount of processing power, sometimes to the point of slowing down/degrading the video stream.

2) What programs tell:

Start Kaffeine(xine)/mplayer/VLC in the konsole -> there should be information what is wrong.

Note
If you get something like:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

Not error but..
Topic: X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=7964.0


if you are using VLC:

vlc --verbose=2

More: vlc --longhelp

-H, --longhelp print help for VLC and all it's modules (can be combined with --advanced)

-v, --verbose <integer> Verbosity (0,1,2)

Kubuntu needs:

Package: kubuntu-restricted-extras (10) [multiverse]
Commonly used restricted packages

This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Kubuntu multiverse repository.

Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding, Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, DVD playback, and LAME (to create compressed audio files).

Please note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright or legal issues in some countries. See http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing for more information.

More:

HOWTO: Get commercial DVD playback in Kaffeine
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086749.0

Topic: Problem playin multimedia!!
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3089314.0

Topic: Can't install the DivX Codec . . .
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3087120.0

Topic: how to install video codec
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3088279.0