several open media types are not supported

I also have these issues on my Acer Aspire One A110

from http://ia300124.us.archive.org/3/item/TrustedComputing/
.flv file simply don't play
.mov I'm still waiting for it to play 30 minutes on
.mp4 not even interested in starting
.mpg version is the same as the .mp4 version.

Most of the same versions work on desktop.

The gstreamer plugins required for the qvc page on desktop are mms and ffmpeg aac plugins.

I think that most people around the world now have heard of QVC and it is the most popular tv shop in the UK and America which will mean lots of people will want to access all of it's features.

I tried sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10* but it got blocked by the fluendo plugins already installed.

hmm, didn't think the fluendo plugins were supposed to be included by default. I will check.

The base UNR builds cannot include codec packs like gstreamer0.10-fluendo-plugins-mp3 -aac, etc because it is not legal. OEM's shipping UNR have to pay license fees for these codecs and then they can be included in the OEM specific build.

So this means out of the box base UNR will not be able to play the most popular audio/video types without user interaction.

This is the path users have to take if the "licensed" codecs are not installed and they want to play a movie.
1)click on movie in browser
2) totem plugin in Firefox basically does nothing and shows a movie icon
3)right click on movie icon in Totem and select "Open with movie player"
4)Movie player will ask to search for suitable codecs, say yes
5)select all the gstreamer plugins that it says you need and install them
6)movie should start playing in Movie Player
7)refresh browser and movie will start play in browser

would be nice if totem plugin prompted you to install the appropriate codecs, but it currently does not

if you open the following from the browser you should be able to play everything there without having to install anything:
file:///home/<username>/Examples

My bag about the fluendo plugin.
I had only done sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10* which tried to pull in the fluendo codecs from mobilepartners.

I modded the command to gstreamer0.10-plugins* which ruled out the fluendo codecs

FWIW, we do not support the gstreamer0.10-plugins-{ugly,bad} packages. Supporting these packages would put Canonical at risk. To be clear, I'm not saying testing these packages puts us at risk, but if we are not going to support the packages I don't see why we should spend time testing them.

We should be testing the Fluendo plugins to be sure they work properly.