Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|MPEG-4 AAC

[corrado venturini]

Can not play a .MOV file. Same file was played ok few days ago in Impish.
corrado@corrado-n8-ii-0813:~/Videos$ totem prova.MOV

(totem:3627): Gdk-WARNING **: 07:33:55.962: Native Windows taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
** Message: 07:33:56.336: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|MPEG-4 AAC decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, level=(string)2, base-profile=(string)lc, profile=(string)lc (MPEG-4 AAC decoder)
** Message: 07:33:56.336: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|H.264 (High Profile) decoder|decoder-video/x-h264, level=(string)5.1, profile=(string)high (H.264 (High Profile) decoder)
corrado@corrado-n8-ii-0813:~/Videos$ apt policy totem
totem:
  Installed: 3.38.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.38.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.38.1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
corrado@corrado-n8-ii-0813:~/Videos$

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Searching in software;
corrado@corrado-n8-ii-0813:~$ cd Videos
corrado@corrado-n8-ii-0813:~/Videos$ totem prova.MOV
** Message: 07:45:22.946: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|MPEG-4 AAC decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, level=(string)2, base-profile=(string)lc, profile=(string)lc (MPEG-4 AAC decoder)
** Message: 07:45:22.946: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|H.264 (High Profile) decoder|decoder-video/x-h264, level=(string)5.1, profile=(string)high (H.264 (High Profile) decoder)
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: xid = 0
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: desktop_id = org.gnome.Totem.desktop
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: Codec nice name: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: ignoring field named level
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: ignoring field named base-profile
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: ignoring field named profile
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: field is: mpegversion, type: gint
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer1(decoder-audio/mpeg)(mpegversion=4)()(64bit)
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: Codec nice name: H.264 (High Profile) decoder
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: ignoring field named level
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: ignoring field named profile
** Message: 07:45:26.452: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer1(decoder-video/x-h264)()(64bit)
** Message: 07:45:26.474: Missing plugins installed. Updating plugin registry ...
** Message: 07:45:26.475: Plugin registry updated, trying again.
^C
corrado@corrado-n8-ii-0813:~/Videos$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Confirmed, but even when it works Totem is an inefficient player with high CPU and stutters. I would recommend 'mpv' for the best experience.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The standard gstreamer plugins (base, good, bad, ugly) should support this. I don't know why none of them work in impish for H264 + AAC. Although this plugins package does work:

  sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-libav

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Still same problem with Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Beta amd64 (20210924)
but installing the suggested plugin totem is ok.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

No longer occurred due to fix or new version. Marked as Invalid.