No video, only sound, in totem after upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10

[olof]

1) Current release : 9.10

2) > apt-cache policy totem
totem:
  Installed: 2.28.2-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.28.2-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.2-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.28.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

3) Showing pictures in rapid succession when playing a video
4) Blank screen. Only sound

I made an upgrade, not a clean install, from 9.04 to 9.10. After that, totem will not show pictures when playing video. It plays sound correctly though. This seems to be independent of video format. Identical behaviour for mpg, avi and wmv.

The funny thing is that gxine works correctly. And if I first start gxine and then totem, everything is fine! But I shouldn't have to have gxine running in the background to be able to use totem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 29 10:54:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Yosef Karo (yos)]

Usually, the lack of video is do to a lack of codecs. Can these videos run just fine on vlc or mplayer? If so, then it is most likely codec related.

-Yos

[olof (olof-baah)]

vlc affects it the same way as gxine does. Videos run fine in gxine and vlc. They also run fine in totem _if_ I have gxine _or_ vlc running in the background.

I'm not competent enough to conclude anything about codecs from this information.

[Yosef Karo (yos)]

SInce someone else just reported the same 'exact' problem.

-Yos

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Starting totem in the terminal and pasting the output might be helpful. Also, test different video outputs with this command:
gstreamer-properties

[olof (olof-baah)]

No output from totem when starting from terminal.

gstreamer-properties:
Autodetect does not work.
"X Window System (No Xv)" does work
"X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)" does not work

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Are you still affected by this issue? Can you test Lucid or Maverick? Thanks!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.