Problem loading movie on Ubuntu

plymouthmartini

I recently installed Processing (both 2.2.1 and 3) on a MINIX Z83-4 running Lubuntu 16.10 only to learn that gstreamer/ffmpeg is not properly supported. The repository ppa:mc3man/gstffmpeg-keep does not work with 16.10, so I reinstalled with 16.04.2LTS and added the necessary plug-ins. Currently I am getting the "Could not load the movie file ...." on the examples included with the video library. Images and sound files seem to be loading fine. It looks like I have the good, bad, and ugly plug-ins installed.

I have not encountered this issue on my other platforms (Mint 18.1, RHEL 6.5, Mac OSX, or Windows).

If anyone has any experience with this, insight would be appreciated.

koogs

what's your file called? where is it installed?

run the file command on it and paste the result.

plymouthmartini

I am running

/opt/processing-2.2.1/modes/java/libraries/video/examples/Movie/Loop/Loop.pde

and its movie file is

/opt/processing-2.2.1/modes/java/libraries/video/examples/Movie/Loop/data/transit.mov

As mentioned above the example runs fine on three other platforms, so I assume this is an Ubuntu-specific issue.

EDIT: As a note, I have already followed the PPA suggestion here.

Second EDIT: I have just installed every package containing gstreamer in the name which is not debug, doc, etc, and have it working correctly now. I cannot say precisely which one was necessary as I was impatient, but with a bit of time, the packages could be added/removed to determine the minimal requirements. Some of the packages I installed were not mentioned in earlier threads, e.g. gstreamer0.10-x, gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, etc.

koogs

ok, i can do it myself:

file transit.mov

transit.mov: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie

so it's a quicktime movie and you'll need the gstreamer "good" plugins.