Fix MP4 Playback In Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 [Gstreamer Bug Affecting Totem, Minitube, Etc.]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWF1O5_QN13IMh7R7vKHZyEvPe0mE20sOoXFkEoS_5qLfcf9lQTJK9a3g2b_LqyrDpYh0VtQt8TOVTTMo_VmUc_YFr576phHTc3bd7kizllrmE3rbeBMYarbRv6Lg0ydFirEu7vyr3FFTN/s1600/mp4-playback-gstreamer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mp4 playback gstreamer" border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWF1O5_QN13IMh7R7vKHZyEvPe0mE20sOoXFkEoS_5qLfcf9lQTJK9a3g2b_LqyrDpYh0VtQt8TOVTTMo_VmUc_YFr576phHTc3bd7kizllrmE3rbeBMYarbRv6Lg0ydFirEu7vyr3FFTN/s320/mp4-playback-gstreamer.png" title="mp4 playback gstreamer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There's a GStreamer <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad0.10/+bug/973014">bug</a> </b>(in the gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package)<b> in the latest Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and other possibly distros that breaks MPEG4 (.mp4) playback</b> for applications such as Totem, Minitube and others.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Luckily, there's a<b> work-around for getting MP4 playback working (tested under Ubuntu 12.04)</b> - renaming the "libgstvideoparsersbad.so" file:</div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>- 32bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mv /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak</code></pre><b>- 64bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">That's it, MP4 videos should now work under Ubuntu 12.04. There aren't any visible side effects to using this work-around, but in case you find one, you can simply rename "libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak" back to "libgstvideoparsersbad.so".</div><br />Update: this bug still exists in <b>Ubuntu 12.10</b> and the above workaround works for Quantal Quetzal.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And speaking of Minitube, there's a new version out, available in the main WebUpd8 PPA: <a href="http://ppa.webupd8.org/post/26136750530/minitube-1-8-0-released-with-quicklists-support">Minitube 1.8.0 Released With Quicklists Support, Compact Mode</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/forums/topic/gstreamer-bug-affecting-ubuntu-12-04-and-other-recent-linux-distributions">Minitube forums</a></i></div>

Fix MP4 Playback In Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 [Gstreamer Bug Affecting Totem, Minitube, Etc.]

There's a GStreamer bug (in the gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package) in the latest Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and other possibly dist...

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