Broken GStreamer-1.4.3

[Sergei Vorobyov]

1)
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10

2)
$ apt-cache policy gstreamer-1.0
gstreamer-1.0-pulseaudio:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0:
  Installed: 1.4.3-1
  Candidate: 1.4.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.3-1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) I expected the basic pipelines

a) gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=242.jpg ! decodebin ! imagefreeze ! videoconvert ! ximagesink
b) gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=242.jpg ! decodebin ! imagefreeze ! videoconvert ! autovideosink

which always played OK on the previous versions of Ubuntu (e.g., GStreamer 1.2.4 on 14.04LTS) play seamlessly in Ubuntu 14.10.

4) Whereas 3a plays OK, 3b (differing by just the video sink) fails; see below

fl@gbx2:~/ads$ gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=242.jpg ! decodebin ! imagefreeze ! videoconvert ! ximagesink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstSystemClock
^Chandling interrupt.
Interrupt: Stopping pipeline ...
Execution ended after 0:00:03.504271487
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...

fl@gbx2:~/ads$ gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=242.jpg ! decodebin ! imagefreeze ! videoconvert ! autovideosink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
libva info: VA-API version 0.35.1
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_35
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstJpegDec:jpegdec0: No valid frames decoded before end of stream
Additional debug info:
gstvideodecoder.c(1071): gst_video_decoder_sink_event_default (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstJpegDec:jpegdec0:
no valid frames found
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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