YouTUBE support broken

[Martin-Éric Racine]

(Note: I really don't know why Totem insisted on filing this bug against gstreamer, but anyhow...)

Since a few days, support to playback YouTube videos in Totem is broken again. The thumbnails appear as normal in the sidebar, but clicking on any of them returns a "you might not have sufficient permissions to access this content" warning.

Trying to run Totem from command line on a terminal, we notice the following debug message:

** Message: Error: "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=Ti-848bKhd0&t=vjVQa1PpcFM77_dKTh5EfXDVVGOpbVgZSPi-pkHJDqQ%3D&fmt=18": Not Found
gstsouphttpsrc.c(1096): gst_soup_http_src_parse_status (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstSoupHTTPSrc:source:
404 Not Found

Should I assume that Totem simply hasn't kept up with YouTube's ever-changing URL format?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.28-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 28 19:17:48 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Confirmed on Maverick alpha 2 with updated gstreamer packages.

Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic i686
Packages: totem 2.30.2-2ubuntu2
                  libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1build1
                  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.24-1ubuntu2
                  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse 0.10.18-0ubuntu1
                  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.15-1

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I saw this in totem (2.31.6-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Plugins:
    - Update for YouTube website changes

So I upgraded my Maverick alpha 3 to the latest packages and tried again.

I can now search and then playback YouTube videos again in Totem..

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

This is actually caused by outdated dependencies for totem-plugins. It would need to be fixed in Lucid as well.