Totem Player not working correctly on 17.10 Beta 2

[James Daube]

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10 Beta 2 on my laptop - Dell Inspiron N4110, Intel Sandybridge Mobile Graphics, Intel® Core™ i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4, 6GB of RAM. If I try to play ANY video on the Totem movie player (the default GNOME player), I get sound and subtitles but no picture. VLC works just fine. This did not happen on my previous 14.04 install on the same laptop. Is this a beta OS bug or just a bad media player?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libgstreamer1.0-0 1.12.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 9 08:31:37 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-06 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
JournalErrors:
 Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
       turn off this notice.
 No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gstreamer1.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

I have the same problem on MOST video, but sometime totem works, apparently random: the same video sometimes is displayed, but a minute later i have a black screen. Sometimes i have also another problem, totem is unable to create a screenshot: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/1721248 both problems with x11 and wayland.
corrado@corrado-beta-4ott:~$ inxi -GxxIS
System: Host: corrado-beta-4ott Kernel: 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
           bits: 64 gcc: 7.2.0
           Desktop: Gnome 3.26.1 (Gtk 3.22.21-0ubuntu1) dm: gdm3
           Distro: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Graphics: Card: Intel HD Graphics 630 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.3 ) driver: i915
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 630 (Kaby Lake GT2)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2 (compat-v: 3.0) Direct Render: Yes
Info: Processes: 236 Uptime: 35 min Memory: 1225.7/7684.1MB
           Init: systemd v: 234 runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121 running in gnome-terminal-) inxi: 2.3.37
corrado@corrado-beta-4ott:~$

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

I don't know how to document this problem, i can just add some experience:
Problem does not happens in wayland.
Problem happens in x11 with many .webm videos created by cheese.
In x11 I click on the video thumbnail and at 1st time usually (not allways) i see the video, next time the totem window appears but with a black video. Click another thumbnail, sometime ok other time black video.
If I call totem from terminal like 'totem Videos/prova.webm' i have mostly the video correctly played.
The attached video is a very small sample giving the problem.

[Eldar Khayrullin (eldar)]

Ubuntu 17.10
In the wayland session the standart Video Player give error message "Input error stream". (VLC plays video).
In Xorg session - OK.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

P.S. Maybe this is bug 1770725