Public bug reported: If gstreamer-vaapi is installed Totem fails to play anything, and instead just shows an error popup saying "GStreamer encountered a general stream error". The app doesn't produce any error msg on the terminal, but shows that vaapi is being used: ... (totem:8470): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:472: Could not open plugins' info directory '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/grilo-0.2': Error opening directory '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/grilo-0.2': No such file or directory
(totem:8470): Totem-WARNING **: Failed to load grilo plugins: All configured plugin paths are invalid libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_36 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 (totem:8470): Gtk-WARNING **: Symbolic icon view-sidebar-symbolic-ltr of size 16 is in an icon theme directory of size 128 ... Gst-launch using vaapidecocde and vaapisink still works properly, using gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=bbb_sunflower_2160p_60fps_normal.mp4 ! qtdemux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink takes 6% cpu instead of 300% on my broadwell based laptop. video downloaded from here http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html ** Affects: totem (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: New ** Tags: vivid ** Tags added: vivid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1416005 Title: totem fails to play video if gstreamer-vaapi is installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/1416005/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs