This is still occurring on Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail". I'm getting sound but no video. I have gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, gstreamer1.0 -plugins-ugly and gstreamer1.0-libav installed.
Regarding your comment "(I love Ubuntu’s “wait for a while and hope the bug goes away” technique of bug “fixing”)", Ubuntu/Canonical are not the developers of this software. I suggest that you file a gstreamer bug report in the upstream bugtracker at bugs.freedesktop.org and then add a watch to this bug by clicking "Also affects project" at the top of the page. ** Tags added: karmic natty raring -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gstreamer0.10 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293222 Title: totem doesn't understand video type video/x-ati-vcr To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/293222/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs