Movie player requires DVD subpicture decoder but reports not available

Hello Ron,

is ubuntu-restricted-extras (or specifically the package gstreamer-plugins-bad which includes DVD subpicture decoder) installed?

Hello Zerwas

ubuntu-restricted-extras was installed but gstreamer-plugins-bad was not. Following the installation of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad and the other packages recommended by Synaptic the DVD now plays as expected.

Good evening...

I'm new to Ubuntu and to Linux in general.
I'm having the same problem, only I don't have a clue on how to install gstreamer-plugins-bad and ubuntu-restricted-extras.

So far, I've only managed to learn a few basic commands on terminal.

Could you instruct me?

Thanx in advance,
Vitor

Hello Vitor'

In Ubuntu select System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
Using "Quick Search" find "ubuntu-restricted-extras" and select for installation choosing to install all the recommended packages.
Using "Quick Search" find "gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad" and select for installation choosing to install all the recommended packages.
Select Apply and the packages will be installed.
Restart Movie Player and follow any instructions and it all should work.

Ah, so its not installing gstreamer-plugins-bad automatically and you end up having to do manually?

Running Brasero I get DVD subpicture decoder plugin not found - I have installed "gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad", before that it was complaining about mplex

Comment no 5 works well so far as I am helping people install Ubuntu and this has been a great fix for some of my problems

I have some issues after installing these and there is no error except missing plug ins required are the bug fixes available?

Installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad. Problem solved. Thanks much!

I have the same problem as #7. I cant burn vob files because it requires this plugin even though I have gst-plug-bad.

Same problem here: I can't burn vob files with brasero because it requires this "decoder dvd subpicture" plugin.

I have maverick

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

$ uname -a
Linux pc-borrionetto 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:18:49 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

$ sudo apt-cache policy brasero
brasero:
  Installato: 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidato: 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
  Tabella versione:
 *** 2.32.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad installed by default
I tried to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse .. no luck
I tried to install ubuntu-restricted-extra (with addons) .. no luck

I don't know what to do .. I'm using ubuntu since 9.04 and it never happened to me!

just to let someone else know I solved using k9copy.
Maybe this can help.

This came up for the first time for me in Ubuntu 10.10 just now.

After the error, totem continued to play the video stream but not the audio stream.

I didn't wait long enough to see if it would eventually fail.

This comes after a rash of odd behavior from totem (gstreamer) in the last month. See bugs #644644, and #375224 / #246319 (possibly duplicates).

This also happens in 10.04 amd64 and with any other codec (mpeg4, mp3). I had to install these codecs manually from Synaptic.

Still an issue on fully updated Precise 12.04.

The error on Movie Player FWIW:

"Python (v2.7) requires to install plugins to play media files of the following type: DVD subpicture decoder"

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

Tested on Trusty (14.04)

Opening a video file in Videos (Totem) results in a popup:

Required plugin could not be found

Videos requires to install plugins to play media files of the following type: subpicture/x-xsub decoder.

Running gst-discover-1.0 on the file:

Missing plugins

Topology:
  container: Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
    unknown: subpicture/x-xsub
    unknown: subpicture/x-xsub
    audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
    audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
    video: DivX MPEG-4 Version 5