Is that specific to totem for you or does it happens also with mplayer as pointed by a previous comment or xine-ui? It might be a videodriver issue
-- Totem-gstreamer exits immediately on AIGLX theora files https://launchpad.net/bugs/49360 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
