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gst-plugins-bad0.10 package

  1. Bug #973014
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 973014

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Unmensch (unmensch) wrote : Re: Fails to decode many common video files encoded as AVC 1 Baseline - L2.1, Baseline - L1.1

The only solution that worked for me was to remove gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad - then I could play mp4s, and they thumbnailed ok. Unfortunately, this also nixed minitube (which was not working well either).

Solution found here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/126030/totem-not-playing-certain-videos-in-12-04