[Bug 973014] [NEW] gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, (libgstvideoparsersbad.so), causes a failure to decode many common video files encoded as AVC 1 Baseline - L2.1, Baseline - L1.1 & others

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Most affected files are   Baseline at L2.1, Baseline at L1.1 *

Those would be the most likely to fail to be decoded but certainly  not limited to kust them.
These files are commonly found online though many users will have locally.
Also affected  other than totem, totem youtube plugin, &  banshee would be the mozilla-plugin & minitube.
Typically the audio will play with no video though sometimes neither

*Moving libgstvideoparsersbad.so to a .bak allows decoding to take place
on the previously affected files, but *is not the recommended fix*

Upstream has provided a commit to fix in both gstreamer 1.0 & .10 (gst-plugins-bad0.10.23
Attached below is a patch taken from the 0.10.23 commit to be applied to 0.10.22 that's currently used in 12.04

Also attached is a cut small sample file, noting the file plays fine in all non gstreamer players & in all gstreamer players in 11.10 & earlier
The file should be playable in totem, banshee & firefox with totem-mozilla plugin installed but only audio is decoded

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic-pae 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr  3 21:33:08 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: gstreamer
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown


** Tags: apport-bug patch precise quantal regression-release
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gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, (libgstvideoparsersbad.so), causes a failure to decode many common video files encoded as AVC 1 Baseline - L2.1, Baseline - L1.1 & others
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/973014
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