Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +0000, Dave Cross wrote:

> 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
> 
>   Do you want to search for these now?
> 
>   [Cancel] [Search]
> 
> 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?

Have you tried adding missing gstreamer1 plug-in packages?
 see: yum list gstreamer1\*

> 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this?

Totem in F18 is based on GStreamer v1.0.x, while you've listed also packages
for GStreamer v0.10.x. Fedup cannot know if Totem needs additional plugins
from repos like RPMFusion.

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