Totem crashes attempting to play wmv file

[Andrey Gelman]

Totem segfaults when I attempt to open a wmv file.
The same when Totem serves as video playback plugin in Firefox.
I believe that this is some kind of dependency problem, because I have 2 additional Trusty machines, that do not experience the same problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: totem 3.10.1-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 2 00:32:27 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-13 (871 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-27 (156 days ago)

[Travis (wilson0028)]

I had this exact problem, all wmv files would crash in totem and vlc. I also had ffmpeg installed via jon-severinsson/ffmpeg. purging this and then updating to the official packages fixed the problem for me.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 25,2019.

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