Bug#819594: totem: Actually, unable to play *any* file!

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

Package: totem
Version: 3.18.1-2+b1
Followup-For: Bug #819594

Dear Maintainer,

I confirm this bug is present, and renders totem useless: we cannot play any video file any more.
To reproduce, just run totem whatevervideoyouhave and you will immediately see it.

Looking around, it seems this bug comes from a bad interaction with components of gstreamer, see

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300125

and in particular

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760234

This appears to be fixed in RedHat now: may we get a fix in our preferred distribution too? :-)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ia_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ia_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages totem depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme                3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic       3.12.0-1
ii  grilo-plugins-0.2               0.2.17-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas       3.18.1-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0        3.0.18-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad        1.6.3-1+b2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.6.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.6.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-x                  1.6.3-1
ii  libc6                           2.22-5
ii  libcairo2                       1.14.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.32.3-1.2
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.48.0-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.6.3-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.8.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.18.9-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a         3.18.5-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0             1.38.1-1
ii  libtotem-plparser18             3.10.6-4
ii  libtotem0                       3.18.1-2+b1
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.6.3-1
ii  totem-common                    3.18.1-2

Versions of packages totem recommends:
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav         1.8.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly  1.6.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio    1.6.3-1
ii  totem-plugins              3.18.1-2+b1

Versions of packages totem suggests:
pn  gnome-codec-install  <none>

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