[Bug 1719077] Re: Unable to find codecs to play videos

[Doug McMahon]

Using as example the 1st vid shown in that channel - 
quvi dump  https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2016/sep/26/is-leicester-ready-for-the-champions-league-video
error: libquvi: while parsing media properties: /usr/share/libquvi-scripts/0.9/media/guardian.lua:91: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value

If you used mpv the vid would play (thanks to youtube-dl

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** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1716137
   Error message using easy-codec-install (gstreamer1.0-packagekit) is not useful & confusing

** Changed in: packagekit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Invalid

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Title:
  Unable to find codecs to play videos

Status in Grilo Plugins:
  Unknown
Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  To reproduce:

  1. Open Totem
  2. Go to Channels and select The Guardian Videos
  3. Select any video
  4. Totem complains about missing codecs
  5. GNOME Software then complains that app-install-data is missing

  See screenshots.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: ubuntu-software 3.26.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-11.12-generic 4.13.1
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Sep 23 11:54:53 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-21 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170919)
  InstalledPlugins:
   gnome-software-plugin-flatpak N/A
   gnome-software-plugin-limba   N/A
   gnome-software-plugin-snap    3.26.0-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: gnome-software
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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