Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message that says:
Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation
The following plugins are required:
* MPEG Video decoder * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder
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I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't find the required plugins.
It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs
$ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
All of which leads me to two questions.
1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos? 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this?
Please let me know if you need any more information or if there's a more useful place for me to report this issue.
Cheers,
Dave...