10bit video does not play

[Christopher Sherwin]

Ubuntu 11.10 (amd64); gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.12; libavcodec53 OR libavcodec-extra-53 (both yield same results for 10bit).
I expect to be able to see 10bit video, since it is supported since libav 0.7 and ffmpeg.
instead, the following error comes up:

Could not find GStreamer caps mapping for FFmpeg codec 'h264', and you are using an external libavcodec. This is most likely due to a packaging problem and/or libavcodec having been upgraded to a version that is not compatible with this version of gstreamer-ffmpeg. Make sure your gstreamer-ffmpeg and libavcodec packages come from the same source/repository.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.35-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 20 14:49:39 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, could you please give us a link with a video so we can test it? Thanks.

[Christopher Sherwin (azaqiel)]

this happens with absolutely any 10bit video, and a link to a sample is here:

http://www.cccp-project.net/beta/test_files/H.264-10bit-sample-railgun.mkv

tested in mplayer2 (works), and tested in totem (did not work).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

getting the same here.

[finyo (zohaib)]

what does I have to do to resolute the bug

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

Still a problem in 12.04 precise.

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Should be fixed upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665034

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The file from comment #4 plays correctly in Totem on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr".