after installing codes, totem reports incorrectly that the plugins did not provide the required features

[Rocko]

I ran totem on a quicktime file (see bug #851481, comment #5 for the file), and totem reported it needed to install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (for the mpeg4-decoder and h264-decoder codecs and the "quicktime demuxer"). It successfully installed them but afterwards said that the plugins did not provide the required functionality.

However, closing totem and trying again worked, so the plugins *did* provide the requested functionality. I would have expected it would have worked immediately.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-codec-install 0.4.7+nmu1ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-rc7-git-20110923.0546 x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 23 09:20:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-codec-install
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Thibault D (thibdrev)]

I have a similar issue with totem :
1/ I insert a DVD and open it with totem
2/ Totem asks to install the additional plugin "DVD decoder subpicture".
3/ Totem doe not manage to install the plugin and prompts "impossible to find the required plugin"

I was expecting the DVD not work, but in fact it was read normaly by totem...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Thibault D (thibdrev)]

Additional information : I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, with all updates as of today.