Bug#746641: totem: Fails to play youtube videos

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi,

On 19/05/14 12:06, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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

Looking at the debian changelog, I see:

    - Drop libquvi-dev (new quvi has incompatible license)

and libquvi has:

libquvi (0.9.3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * libquvi is now licensed under AGPL-3+.

Linking against the new libquvi would effectively make libtotem-plparser GPL or
AGPL, wouldn't it? IANAL and I could be wrong, but that's my understanding.

Since 0.9 is only in experimental and unstable still has 0.4.x, we could keep
linking against that, but we need to make sure we have something sane by the freeze.

Regards,
Emilio