GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error.

I can confirm this bug.

10.04 32 bit.

I can confirm this bug on 9.10 (64bit) and 10.04 beta1 (32bit) too.

YouTube seems to have changed their site just recently and globally broke the totem YouTube plug-in on both, my Karmic box and my Lucid virtual machine.

As this plug-in is installed by default on Lucid, this should either be fixed before final release or moved from the totem-plugins to the totem-plugins-extras package (which is not installed by default) and fixed later.

Ps. Pretty sure it's not a library issue. The plug-in was not touched since 5 months on my host system and worked only a few days ago, but drops the error now.

Here is the date from the last update:

ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/totem-plugins.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3342 2009-11-24 19:52 /var/lib/dpkg/info/totem-plugins.list

I get the same error, since today no video seems to work anymore. Before, there where only a few which brought up that error message.

I used to be able to watch YouTube on Totem, then a while back started getting the odd video with "GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error." error. Now they all seem to give that error. Just Googling around, it looks like a YouTube server side change?

This occurs for me as well.

thank you for your bug report, youtube changed their website again and totem needs to be update, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614679, the change will be uploaded soon to lucid

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.30.0-0ubuntu3

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totem (2.30.0-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/91_git_youtube_regex.patch:
    - git change to fix youtube video playing issues to website change
      (lp: #544660)
  * debian/patches/92_git_trailer_apple.patch:
    - git change to fix playing on the trailers.apple.com website
      (lp: #431817)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:39:37 +0200

Hello, this has error occurred on my and also my brother's PC. I use Totem 2.32.0 and GStreamer 0.10.30, Ubuntu 10.10 with latest update. While playing video from YouTube through Totem plugin.

Terminal output:

** Message: Error: V GStreamer došlo k chybě obecné podpůrné knihovny.
gstffmpegdemux.c(1255): gst_ffmpegdemux_open (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin1/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin21/ffdemux_swf:ffdemux_swf1:
Input/output error

(Message means: "GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error." as in first post.)

I get same error.

Terminal output:

** Message: Error: GStreamer ha incontrato un errore generico nelle librerie di supporto.
gstffmpegdemux.c(1255): gst_ffmpegdemux_open (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/ffdemux_swf:ffdemux_swf0:
Input/output error

It seems that youtube has updated the site and consequently the plugin does not work anymore.

I use ubuntu 10.10 64 bit version all updated.

Yes same for me, on both 10.10 amd64 and 10.04 32bit.

I got the same problem, it says: "GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error."
Using Ubuntu 10.10 all latest updates.

I'm quite new, i see it says "fix released" here but i cannot find it, does that mean its in the update database or w.e?
Or is this problem not fixed yet?

The problem returns every time Google changes its mind about the YouTube API.

for me same error.
maybe recent totem(2.32.2)ubuntu 11.04 also failed to fix GStreamer error.
old error reoccured.

same here, totem 2.32.0, gstreamer 0.10.30 on maverick i686. way to go, youtube.
output:

** Message: Error: GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error.
gstffmpegdemux.c(1255): gst_ffmpegdemux_open (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/ffdemux_swf:ffdemux_swf0:
Input/output error

Confermo errore: Riproduttore multimediale Totem 2.32.0 - Il riproduttore multimediale utilizza GStreamer 0.10.30
                                 Sistema operativo Ubuntu 10.10 ( linux-image-2.6.35-28 )

                                                                     Si è verificato un errore
                                                            GStreamer ha incontrato un errore
                                                             generico nelle librerie di supporto.

I got the same error
version: Ubuntu 10.4 32 bit
totem 2.30.2
Linux 2.6.32-36-generic-pae #79-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 8 23:25:26 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

** Message: Error: GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error.
gstffmpegdemux.c(1255): gst_ffmpegdemux_open (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin2/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin22/ffdemux_swf:ffdemux_swf2:
Input/output error

If I read these posts correctly, there is no fix at this time (April, 2012), correct?