Bug#746641: totem: Fails to play youtube videos

Mon May 19 10:06:21 UTC 2014

On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 10:46 +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> Package: totem
> Version: 3.12.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Tried to search for videos on Youtube.
> When trying to play a video, you get a dialog about a missing HTML decoder.
> On the terminal the following is printed:
> ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|text/html decoder|decoder-text/html (text/html decoder)
> ** Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper script missing)
> 
> I guess there is some gstreamer plugin missing.

No, whoever built totem-pl-parser built it without libquvi support:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libtotem-plparser18/filelist