gnome videos displays corrupted video

[Gabriel Diosan]

When playing a MP4 video, totem/gnome-videos displays a purplish corrupted video output with some stuttering.

Attached is a screenshot which shows an MP4 with the corrupted display.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libgstreamer1.0-0 1.14.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 30 12:45:34 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-20 (160 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gstreamer1.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dino99 (9d9)]

Just tested a few mp4 videos with totem on bionic (gnome-shell on xorg session), and works as expected.
So glance at 'journalctl -b' warnings/errors; or run totem from the terminal, then try reading the mp4 video(s) to get the scary output.
Please post here the errors you get you reading the video.

[dino99 (9d9)]

In case gstreamer1.0-vaapi is installed, then purge it; it has been the root cause of such a problem some months ago.

[Petrificator (petrificator)]

Hi team, Janitor, Dino99,

I had the same problem and I have done the following...

From the terminal sudo apt-get remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi

I have done a test and yes, the problem has been fixed now I can see the video correctly.

So the problem is gstreamer1.0-vaapi

Best Regards,

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gstreamer1.0 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]