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Recently, my computer stopped being able to play mp4, 3pg, avi, mkv, and more media. VLC will get it to work, nothing else does, and when I try to play it with the normal player it always tries to find codecs to install, when just yesterday everything worked fine

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  • Have you done any upgrade or something ?..
    – aneeshep
    Nov 3, 2010 at 6:40
  • Perhaps, either way... I'd just like to play my files again
    – Grayson
    Nov 4, 2010 at 0:23

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Make sure you have the ubuntu-restricted-extras package installed, as well as the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse packages. You can find them in Software Center; if they don't show up there go to edit->Software Sources and make sure you have Multiverse enabled.

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  • All is installed, yet no luck
    – Grayson
    Nov 3, 2010 at 20:52
  • I've reinstalled the things and everything, yet no luck
    – Grayson
    Nov 3, 2010 at 23:35
  • To be clear Totem is the program you're using that isn't working, yes? Do you have any PPAs enabled? Nov 4, 2010 at 9:56

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