Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

[Dave Cross]

On 20 January 2013 18:19, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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\*

Thanks for the advice. I hadn't noticed that there were gstreamer and
gstreamer1 packages on my system.

Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem.
But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall
gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And that seems to
have done the trick.

>> 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.

Ah. Yes, I see that now. I assume there's a good reason for the
version number to be in the name of the packages rather than in the
version number :-/

Cheers,

Dave...

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