Good news it seems ( and I'm surprise nobody told it here ) , the needed Fix for Totem was introduced by gnome team in April 2012 :
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674083 But I don't see if it's still working for Totem 3.10.1 which I guess uses gstream 1.0 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #674083 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674083 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/997370 Title: Totem does not use the va-api gstreamer backend To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/totem/+bug/997370/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs