Comment 11 for bug 1124408

Confirmed on saucy 13.10, vlc plays asterisk generated wav files OK, totem does not.

This plays fine though:
0 jan@osprey:/usr/share/sounds/alsa$totem Front_Center.wav

This does not play fine.
0 jan@osprey:~$strace -e open totem msg0169.WAV 2>&1 |grep -i wav
open("/home/jan/msg0169.WAV", O_RDONLY) = 18
open("/home/jan/msg0169.WAV", O_RDONLY) = 18
open("/home/jan/msg0169.WAV", O_RDONLY) = 18
0 jan@osprey:~$strace -e open totem msg0169.WAV 2>&1 |grep -i codec
1 jan@osprey:~$strace -e open totem msg0169.WAV 2>&1 |grep -i gstream
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/gstreamer-1.0.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/gstreamer-1.0.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/gstreamer-1.0.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/gstreamer-1.0.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/jan/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.x86_64.bin", O_RDONLY) = 8
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstplayback.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 14
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstaudioconvert.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstaudiofx.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstautodetect.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstcoreelements.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstgoom.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpulse.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 22
0 jan@osprey:~$

I purged medibuntu's non-free-codecs and w64codecs in case it was that, but the problem persists.