Comment 1 for bug 35229

More information on this: I've noticed, on every system I've ever installed Ubuntu on (about twenty, now), that Totem will VERY RELIABLY crash whenever it attempts to play any video of sufficient resolution. I have a couple of really high-definition videos (one is 1024x768, and one is 1280x1024) that Totem simply cannot run. I can produce this error just about anywhere. I think (but can't prove) that this has to do with the amount of available video RAM - the 1280x1024 will crash my computer here and at home; but the 1024x768 video runs at home (where I have a 6600GT, instead of an i915 onboard).

The "splash" screen for totem (the cutboard with the word "totem" on it) is currently a 1280x1024 PNG. Based on how slow it is to open this image (on my home machine - takes about five seconds for the image to "peel" into place from the top to the bottom), and based on the fact that it straight up crashes here, I'm willing to bet that Totem is trying to open that PNG as a movie, and this creates the reliable crash I've listed above.

Workaround: Scaling down the image resolution for totem_logo.png (<= 720 pixels wide), or removing totem_logo.png altogether both allow Totem to open as usual.