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totem player Youtube not playing clips

Asked by mrlopes

just upgraded to 8.04

i'm trying out the Youtube plugin on Totem.
The clips appear when i do a search but when i try to play i get this error message for every clip:

ffdemux_swf: Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file a bug.

What should i do????

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Brian O'Keefe (okeefe) said : 		#1

This has been reported as a bug in several posts.
However, I was playing YouTube in totem just fine until an update of libgstreamer, I think,. Now I get the same error. I found this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/191760
and tried editing the youtube.py file as suggested but no help. there are a bunch of bugs around this issue but I see no solutions. Wish I could help. I'm going to file a bug.
I tried this from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/163380

gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://www.allabout-sp.net/ep.swf?url=http://content.movies.myspace.com/0017703/38/48/1770318483.flv
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
ERROR: from element /playbin0/decodebin0/ffdemux_swf0: Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file a bug.
Additional debug info:
gstffmpegdemux.c(1372): gst_ffmpegdemux_sink_activate_push (): /playbin0/decodebin0/ffdemux_swf0:
failed to activate sinkpad in pull mode, push mode not implemented yet
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
** Message: don't know how to handle application/x-shockwave-flash
FREEING pipeline ...

So something has screwed up gstreamer and flash video playback. Very frustrating as I was so enjoying watching YouTube on Totem since I'm on the PowerPC platform and can't use Adobe Flashplayer!

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mrlopes (mrlopes) said : 		#2

Dam it...

Hope it gets sorted...

Nice plugin