totem-gstreamer: Totem segfaults when opening .mov or .mp4 file

[Petri Pennanen]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:48 -0400, Myers Carpenter wrote:
> Package: totem-gstreamer
> Version: 0.99.19-0ubuntu1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> If I start totem from the console then try to open a .mov file I get
> this:

> Segmentation fault

> If I open a .mp4 the same way I get:

> Segmentation fault

Hello!

The problem is probably that totem-gstreamer on Ubuntu doesn't
support .mov or .mp4 because of icky patent issues. Of course it should
be able to handle that without segfault.. 

For a temporary fix you can install totem-xine from universe. It
supports some .mov files, mp4 I don't know about. Installing it will
remove totem-gstreamer and ubuntu-desktop. The latter is a meta package
used to make shure that you have all the components of the default
Ubuntu destkop install. You can remove it without worries.

You can also see if there is a open bug. If not you might want to open
one, for the segfault on unsupported formats that is.

Multimedia support:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-15.6357540221

Unsupported formats and tools:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-16.3469703387

How To - Access the "universe" repository 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/howto/helpcenterhowto.2004-09-30.5359349801

Bugtracker:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com

- Petri