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I have installed ubuntu-restricted-extras but when I play a movie such as this http://media.railscasts.com/videos/250_authentication_from_scratch.mov it plays the sound but the video is just a black screen.

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It works for me. Did you install the restricted extras? That contains media codecs and the like to decode the video. – The Lord of Time May 2 '11 at 22:31
What is the output of apt-cache search gstreamer | grep gstreamer? – RolandiXor May 3 '11 at 0:00
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closed as too localized by fossfreedom Feb 18 '12 at 22:11

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