Totem fails to play mp4 files originating from youtube
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In precise beta 2, Totem fails to plays mp4 files downloaded from youtube via Minitube or the Firefox DownloaHhelper plugin.
Totem does not crash, but displays a black screen.
As a result, totem-video-
"totem-
Reason: Took too much time to process."
error message)
This is a regression as everything was fine in 11.10 using the same videos. Moreover, other media players such as VLC or SMPlayer have no trouble playing the video.
Steps to reproduce
- Download a video from youtube using minitube or the DownloadHelper Firefox plugin
- check that Nautilus does not display a snapshot of the video as a thumbnail
- check that Totem fails to properly plays the video, although it does not crash
- check that it is not the case in 11.10
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 9 10:11:47 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-29 (10 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.