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Totem not playing certain videos in 12.04

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The videos that work properly in 10.04 are not working in 12.04.



haris@psycho:~/music$ file Captain Tsubasa 2 NES - 21 - Coimbra_s Theme.mp4 

Captain Tsubasa 2 NES - 21 - Coimbra_s Theme.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2



haris@psycho:~/music$ file Captain Tsubasa 2 Nes Music - 01 Opening.mp4 

Captain Tsubasa 2 Nes Music - 01 Opening.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2



haris@psycho:~/music$ file Batman (NES) Music - Continue Theme.mp4 

Batman (NES) Music - Continue Theme.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2



haris@psycho:~/music$ file Starship - Nothing_s Gonna Stop us Now (Mannequin) LYRICS.mp4 

Starship - Nothing_s Gonna Stop us Now (Mannequin) LYRICS.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2

The third and fourth videos are not even being played by Totem while for the second one, I can hear the audio but can't see the video. The first one plays well enough. Once again, all these videos work without any problems in 10.04.

Should I report this as a bug or can it be rectified?

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answered 2 Years ago hreadsoplet · Accepted Answer

For 12.04

Until the bug is fixed & atm there is no movement towards doing so we've tracked this down to a plugin in gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, specifically libgstvideoparsersbad.so

So if desired you can move that plugin to a .bak & it should clear up decoding issues caused by this bug

For 64 bit install

sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak

For 32 bit install

sudo mv /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak

What, if any, loss of function is unclear here, I've seen none Yet, obviously the hope is this bug will be addressed in 12.04, current report - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/973014

The best self fix until bug is resolved is to patch & rebuild the bad plugins source. A quick howto here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12118375&postcount=6