The point is that the misbehaving could be in either the grilo plugins, or in totem itself. So if the problem is in Totem, and you remove plugins from the system, then other applications that work fine with such plugins won't have the opportunity to use them.
On the other hand, such bugs could be already fixed in recent versions. Are those problems specific to Ubuntu? Any idea if they are present also in Debian? Regarding the last paragraph, Grilo and plparser use mainly two libraries for the work: GData, that provides access to the Youtube API, and libquvi, that helps to get the real URL for further displaying. The changes that YouTube does are mainly about the later. So it totally depends on the libquvi version you have in the system. In general libquvi is pretty updated, so if you keep in sync with the latest releases very likely everthing will work fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1035701 Title: grilo plugins should be enabled in Totem Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Triaged Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I see no good reason why they're not. For the most part they all work, any that don't are a grilo bug, (like vimeo), & shouldn't affect being enabled. If sticking with 3.4.3/gstreamer .10/grilo 0.1 (0.1.2 is available) it would seem straightforward to enable & have installed (inc. it in totem-plugins here in a test rebuild If moving to totem 3.4.4+/gstreamer1.0/grilo 0.2 then have tested that here, works ok though ATM not as good as 0.1 , though again any grilo issies are grilo bugs ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: totem 3.4.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Aug 11 14:32:15 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120707) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: totem UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1035701/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp