Comment 19 for bug 288494

I'm sure Mariusz Kielpinski meant that it's no solution to the 99% of the people who have experienced this problem. That is, the people who have experienced it and did not care enough to go hunting around for a random solution on a bug tracking site. That's not what "Linux for human beings" means.

It actually took me a good 15 minutes to find this; there are many other bugs with "ffdemux_swf" that have nothing to do with this particular problem (those other bugs refer to codec issues with gstreamer, and several people from the other bugs have been misdirected and have given up because of the confusion). This isn't a simple find by any means.

Don't get me wrong, the fix works perfectly, and I thank you for the work you've done, but it's been a month since the fix was made available. We don't blame you for not placing this in hardy-backports; the admins are the ones who should have done this. Pointing out a problem is not whining, even though the problem is fairly small: it's a niche plugin for Totem, after all. I'm under the impression, however, that Ubuntu originally prided itself ideologically on shipping this plugin as the solution to the proprietary evils and such conferred by using Adobe Flash to actually go to YouTube. Touting this as the solution and then leaving it broken is slightly disingenuous, though I'm sure it wasn't done intentionally. Point is, they should keep their 3-years-support promise and pay attention.