Public bug reported:
My attempts to get it to work with gnome video (Totem) fail due to a
missing decoder:
When I start the video with `xdg-open some.mp4`, in a window over the
first frame of the video player I get a popup that says:
```
Unable to play the file
meta/x-gst-fourcc-mett decoder is required to play the file, but is not
installed.
Cancel | Find in Ubuntu Software
```
When I click "Find in Ubuntu Software", another window is opened with a
spinning circle which runs indefinitely without finding anything. The process
that is spawns is this:
```
/usr/bin/gstreamer-codec-install --interaction=hide-confirm-search
--desktop-id=org.gnome.Totem.desktop --startup-notification-id=_TIME1227877508
gstreamer|1.0|totem|meta/x-gst-fourcc-mett
decoder|decoder-meta/x-gst-fourcc-mett
```
This process, by the way, does not get cleaned up when the parent windows are
closed - manual cleanup is required.
It appears that gstreamer shouldn't even require installing codecs,
since gst-play-1.0 is fully capable of playing the mp4:
```
gst-play-1.0 some.mp4
```
Other details:
- all of the totem's `Recommends` and `Suggests` packages installed.
- ffplay can play this mp4
- vlc can play this mp4
```
$ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release: 24.04
$ apt-cache policy totem
totem:
Installed: 43.0-2ubuntu4
Candidate: 43.0-2ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 43.0-2ubuntu4 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
```
** Affects: snapd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: snapd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Gnome videos (Totem) cannot play mp4, snap store installer broken
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