Yes you're correct in that I meant totem (not vlc) when I was referring to playing a video file after "sudo apt remove gstreamer1.0-libav". When you say a complete reinstall, do you mean a complete reinstall of Ubuntu? Isn't there a way of removing ffmpeg packages and reinstalling them?
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