Thanks for your bug. A bug tracker is to report issues. If you want some sort of user help you should better use a forum, user list or the support tracker from launchpad: https://launchpad.net/support
According to your description the issue is not specific to totem, so that's not a totem bug. What videocard do you use? Do you have an error printed when running totem or mplayer? ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: totem => None Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- crash at opening totem on Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/47293 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs