totem is unable to play .mp4. and some .avi, works fine with .webm. Same videos are played successfully by VLC
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gstreamer1.0 (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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High
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Iain Lane |
Bug Description
Problem: totem is unable to play .avi and .mp4. works fine with .webm. Same videos are played successfully by VLC media player. totem does not crash, but just remains with a black screen.
Another symptom (of same problem?) is avi and mp4 thumbnails are not resolved in images.
I found the problem with an installation from daily 20170807 and have the same problem with daily 20170815.
How to reproduce problem: try open a .avi or .mp4 (with videos/totem) results in a black screen. Here the output starting it from terminal:
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cagax.avi prova vid.mp4
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** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|
** Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper script missing)
(totem:8899): Totem-WARNING **: Failed to reset the playback rate to 1.0
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** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|
** Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper script missing)
(totem:8917): Totem-WARNING **: Failed to reset the playback rate to 1.0
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totem:
Installed: 3.25.90.1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.25.90.1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.25.90.1-0ubuntu1 100
100 /var/lib/
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Linux corrado-HP-aa-0815 4.11.0-13-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 3 15:14:11 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libgstreamer1.0-0 1.12.2-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 16 10:00:26 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-10 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170807)
SourcePackage: gstreamer1.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/
same .avi and .mp4 are also played successfully by mpv Media Player. Some .avi are played also by totem and his thumbnails are displayed correctly.