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 Desktop Packages, 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 Status in “gstreamer0.10” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer Totem cannot play video of type x-ati-vcr (fourcc appears to be VCR2). When it tries, it displays at the console, "** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem-gstreamer|ATI VCR 2 decoder|decoder- video/x-ati-vcr, vcrversion=(int)2 (ATI VCR 2 decoder)" It will run gstreamer-codec-install with the following commandline: "/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gstreamer-codec-install --transient- for=62914563 gstreamer|0.10|totem-gstreamer|ATI VCR 2 decoder|decoder- video/x-ati-vcr, vcrversion=(int)2" That program does not find any codecs either. totem-xine is also unable to play this file, but of course does not run gstreamer-codec-install. mplayer can play this, and appears to use the mpeg decoder to play it (it displays: "Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))") To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/293222/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
