totem not playing YouTube Videos

Thank you for your bug report. What preferred web browser is configured in the GNOME preferred application dialog?

when I look under preferences -> preferred applications I see that the web browser is set to custom and the command: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox-3.0 "%s".

Setting it to "Ubuntu Sensible Browser" doesn't work either. Changing the setting to Epiphany doesn't work. Finally chaning it to firefox doesn't work either. In all cases, I get the error dialog as follows, and this is with the Youtube and Thumbnail plugins enabled in totem:

========== error dialog ===========
Totem cannot play this type of media (YouTube) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it.
Please install the necessary plugins and restart Totem to be able to play this media.

 http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/#codecs
========== end error dialog ===========
BTW, the link that goes to #codecs above contains no reasonble information on how to fix this, which is contrary to the error dialog.

This may be related:

In totem plugins 2.22.1-ubuntu1, I get same error. Unlike Sam, I firefox get lauched, but the main problem (playing youtube videos, via totem plugin) is still there.

Upon further inspection I've discovered that the plugin tries, and fails to find "souphttpsrc" gstreamer plugin.
(relevant line in /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/youtube.py:
  if registry.find_plugin ("flvdemux") == None or registry.find_plugin ("souphttpsrc") == None:
)
if the line is changed to:
  if registry.find_plugin ("flvdemux") == None:

video playback works.

should this be a separate bugreport?

the bug has been fixed upstream and the change will be uploaded to hardy

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.22.1-0ubuntu2

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totem (2.22.1-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_fix_youtube_requirement.patch:
    - change from svn, fix the youtube gstreamer requirement (lp: #214416)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:08:52 +0200