I am marking this bug as confirmed as I have tested this myself. The
issue gets worse in karmic which simply crashes instead of proposing
plugins.

The link to test is:
http://bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=LiveBTV

This uses the totem plugin, and requires a package that can decode
proprietary microsoft protocols. On a base install, going to this page
will make totem pop up, proposing to search for packages that can read
this stream. It is not able to find any packages to fit this need.

gstreamer0.10-plugins-ffmpeg - black screen, no proposal of plugins
presented, totem plugin shows "Playing 0:00 (Streaming)"

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad - proposes  to search for plugins, which
recommends gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly - once all three installed, I got a second of
video then I was proposed more plugins, which failed because there was
no package found for Windows Media Speech decoder.

w32codecs/w64codecs (medibuntu) - saw video for a second, makes no
difference Windows Media Speech decoder is still needed.

Looking for bugs of people who have experienced the same thing, I found
Bug #298189 and Bug #301120 which also explain the same issue. Looking
at the ubuntuforums link you provided. I got the idea to try it in VLC.
>From the totem plugin window menu, I select "Copy" which copies the
source of the video, which in this case was:

mms://a627.l2479952251.c24799.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/627/24799/v0001/reflector:52251

I pasted this into vlc's Open > Network Stream bar, which gave me the
video, but no audio. I also got the error:

No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video
format "wmas". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

So in fact totem is not failing, the plugins in ubuntu repositories are
enough for the video, but since it can't decode the audio the totem
plugin stops there. Whats missing is libdmo_plugin.so which is the
WMA2/WMAS decoder module.

So in conclusion, this bug is a request to include the WMA2/WMAS audio
codecs to the gstreamer plugin packs and to vlc. If there are any issues
with doing this please comment on this bug.

** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

** Also affects: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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