The only solution that worked for me was to remove gstreamer0.10
-plugins-bad - then I could play mp4s, and they thumbnailed ok.
Unfortunately, this also nixed minitube (which was not working well
either).
Solution found here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/126030/totem-not-playing-certain-videos-
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 884811 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884811
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 884811
totem crashes with command line options
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Forgot to mention: Switching to full screen while totem is playing works
fine.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930097
Title:
Totem appears birefly and clsoes with seg
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Totem appears birefly and clsoes with seg fault when using
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Public bug reported:
Description:Xubuntu 11.10
Release:11.10
totem:
Installed: 3.0.1-0ubuntu7.1
Candidate: 3.0.1-0ubuntu7.1
Version table:
*** 3.0.1-0ubuntu7.1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
