Gnome-2.28 upgrade, now totem won't play mkv files [solved]

engineermdr · Last edited by engineermdr on Fri May 07, 2010 5:28 am; edited 1 time in total

First off, I can play my video files with mplayer. This is a problem with gnome/totem itself.

I used to be able to watch mkv files with totem, until the recent gnome upgrade. I changed no use flags, only did a sync and emerge upgrade. I've looked for a missing use flag, tried installing gst-plugins-x264 (had to unmask it) but can't get this to work anymore. mkvinfo shows the video is encoded as

engineermdr · Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 5:27 am Post subject:

Found this post that solved my problem: Totem won't play mp4 or flv

Adding the ffmpeg use flag to gst-plugins-meta fixed it.