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I am running Ubuntu 10.04 with ubuntu-resticted-extra installed. When I play .mkv with the default player, totem it causes the player to stop suddenly without any warning after a random amount of time!

Anybody else is having this problem? Is there any workaround other than installing vlc??

What I want to know is, Is it a bug in gstreamer? or I'm the only one facing this issue!

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    Try VLC media player. It plays almost every video format flawlessly.
    – abhishek
    Nov 14, 2011 at 12:20

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Its a BUG....in the meantime...

Install VLC

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

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Open Synaptic application

Click on System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have an universe repository activated.

Search for vlc and install it, as well as vlc-plugin-pulse. You may also want to install mozilla-plugin-vlc.

If you are interested in streaming or transcoding, you should additionnally install libavcodec-extra-52 from a multiverse repository. Command line way

You need to check that a universe mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc
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Install gstreamer-ffmpeg. This should give you better playback with .mkv files. If it does not, then use another player (other than totem), such as VLC, or GNOME-Mplayer.

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Try updating your Gstreamer.

Else you can try Mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

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The above error is happening because there is no libde265 plugin, run the following and it will work. I just did it:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-libde265

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