Totem can't open h264 video if gstreamer1.0-vaapi is present

Bug #2045466 reported by Michaël
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Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04

totem:
  Install : 42.0-1ubuntu1
  Candidate : 42.0-1ubuntu1

gstreamer1.0-vaapi:
  Install : 1.20.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate : 1.20.1-1ubuntu1

Expected : Totem play h264 videos

To reproduce :

Ubuntu 22.04 Fresh installation with Install third-party... and additional media formats check.

Play h264 video doesn't work with error message : An error has occurred the specified movie could not be found

Fix : apt autoremove gstreamer1.0-vaapi

Bug isn't present in an Ubuntu 22.04 fresh installation with Install third-party... and additional media formats option uncheck. gstreamer1.0-vaapi is installed by ubuntu-restricted-addons.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1969512, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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