Totem not playing some files correctly (sound but no video)

Bug #1825628 reported by Tim Hamilton
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gstreamer1.0 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

When played in Totem some videos will play sound but video output is a series of green and pink screens (see screenshot).

Problem appeared following update to 19.04, all files played fine under previous releases.

When run from the commandline Totem gives the following error.

(totem:1601): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:03:46.890: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node slider owner GtkScale)

See below mediainfo output for a non-working file:

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Complete name : Bananas In Pyjamas The Christmas Tree.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 74.2 MiB
Duration : 12 min 0 s
Overall bit rate : 865 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf57.83.100

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 12 min 0 s
Bit rate : 729 kb/s
Width : 1 024 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.049
Stream size : 62.5 MiB (84%)
Writing library : x264 core 157
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=1404 / vbv_bufsize=3000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=none / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 12 min 0 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 11.0 MiB (15%)
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: libgstreamer1.0-0 1.15.90-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 20 19:56:58 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-04 (75 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
SourcePackage: gstreamer1.0
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-19 (0 days ago)
XorgLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

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Tim Hamilton (pseudomorph) wrote :
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gstreamer1.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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emptythevoid (emptythevoid) wrote :

This fixed it immediately for me:

sudo apt remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi

Not sure why this is causing a problem, though.

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emptythevoid (emptythevoid) wrote :
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