playing MMS / .ASX with totem needs manual install of codec package

Same problem here.
Can be solved by installing gstreamer-plugins-ugly

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly did not solve my problem. I still can not play the mms link.

I also had a failure to automatically install when first using the bbc live radio player (streaming iplayer).

Same experience as Tenoch, adding gstreamer ugly plugins via synaptic did not work for me.

However, using Applications=>Add/Remove (set to show "All available applications), selecting the Sound & Video tab and the searching for "mms" led me to the "Gstreamer plugins for mms, wavpak, quicktime, musepack".

Installing this did solve the problem for me. I'm not familiar with the use of Add/Remove Applications, so don't know how it interacts with synaptic or what the actual packages installed are called under synaptic. I was not asked to enable additional repositories, so I assume that the necessary packages were available, just not found automatically.

FWIW: with the final release of Jaunty 9.04, the problem is still there. :-(

Following Neil Woolford procedure allowed me to play the mms link using TOTEM.

THANKS

Well, Neil's procedure is what I myself had written as a workaround in my
original bug report. I quote:

/quote
Workaround: manual install of package "Gstreamer plugins for mms,
wavpack, quicktime, ..." via Add/Remove.
/unquote

But I don't consider that to be the solution: totem / Ubuntu will always
automagically and gracefully find and install needed codecs. So that should
happen too for this codec.

Neil's solution worked for me as well

i think that the packages installed in this procedure, should be included in ubuntu-restricted-extras

I have experienced the same issue in Ubuntu 10.04 beta1.
Web: http://www.cadenaser.com/player_radio.html

Installing manually gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly solved the problem.

I may be wrong but maybe this is the problem.

the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly package contains info saying what decoders/encoders it provides but it doesn't mention mms:

Gstreamer-Decoders: application/vnd.rn-realmedia; application/x-pn-realaudio; application/x-rdt, media=(string)application, encoding-name=(string)X-REAL-RDT; application/x-rtp, media=(string){ application, video, audio }, encoding-name=(string)X-ASF-PF; audio/AMR; audio/AMR-WB; audio/ac3; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, layer=(int)[ 1, 3 ]; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, parsed=(boolean)false; audio/x-ac3; audio/x-lpcm; audio/x-private1-ac3; audio/x-private1-lpcm; audio/x-sid; video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)[ 1, 2 ], systemstream=(boolean)false; video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int){ 1, 2 }, systemstream=(boolean)true; video/x-ms-asf
Gstreamer-Elements: a52dec, ac3iec958, amrnbdec, amrnbenc, amrwbdec, asfdemux, cdiocddasrc, dvddemux, dvdlpcmdec, dvdreadsrc, dvdsubdec, dvdsubparse, mad, mp3parse, mpeg2dec, mpegdemux, mpegparse, pnmsrc, rademux, rdtdepay, rdtmanager, rmdemux, rtpasfdepay, rtspreal, rtspwms, siddec, twolame, xingmux
Gstreamer-Encoders: audio/AMR; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, layer=(int)2; audio/x-iec958; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)4321, signed=(boolean)true
Gstreamer-Uri-Sources: cdda, dvd, pnm
Gstreamer-Version: 0.10

Can someone from the QA team have a look at it?

Following the steps which Neil says in #3 installed to me the following packages:

Start-Date: 2010-05-09 10:43:40
Install: libwildmidi0 (0.2.2-2), liborc-0.4-0 (0.4.3-5), libflite1 (1.3-release-2build1), libdc1394-22 (2.1.2-2), libsoundtouch1c2 (1.3.1-2), libopenspc0 (0.3.99a-2), libfftw3-3 (3.2.2-1), libgme0 (0.5.5-1), freepats (20060219-1), gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (0.10.18-1ubuntu1), libkate1 (0.3.7-3), libcdaudio1 (0.99.12p2-9), libmimic0 (1.0.4-2build1), libcelt0-0 (0.7.1-1), libdirac-encoder0 (1.0.2-2), libofa0 (0.9.3-3.1), libmms0 (0.4-2), libiptcdata0 (1.0.3-1ubuntu1)
End-Date: 2010-05-09 10:44:09

bah works.. I had installed gstreamer thru cli and i was experiencing the same problem, so it was tagged as installed..

I uninstalled and reinstalled, and now it works.

using 10.04 LTS btw

Bug #543157 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-codec-install/+bug/543157) seems related. The solution provided there by 'Sergey K' (post 5) solved my problem (using Ubuntu 10.04).

Still valid for Ubuntu 11.04

Had to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad manually, then it worked.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Still here in Oneiric.

Still here in Precise. I'm using Lubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin).