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Description: totem does not recognize anymore some type of windows media streams (which have been worked before)

for example, starting firefox from a console and pointing it to http://www.rai.tv/mplive/0,,LiveTv^4,00.html , this is what you get in the console

"""

** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: totemPlugin [0x9d07068]
** Message: Init mimetype 'application/x-mplayer2' mode 1
** Message: GetScriptableNPObject [0x9d07068]
** Message: totemGMPPlayer [0x9cf70b8]
** Message: Base URI is 'http://www.rai.tv/mplive/0,,LiveTv%5E4,00.html'
** Message: Real mimetype for 'application/x-mplayer2' is 'video/x-msvideo'
argv[0] type application/x-mplayer2
argv[1] pluginspage http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaPlayer/
argv[2] src /mpASX/0,1067333,sottosezione%253Drtvliverai3streaming%2526path%253Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmediapolis%255Erai%255Eit%252Frelinker%252FrelinkerServlet%255Ehtm%253Fcont%253D986%2526sezione%253Drtvstreaming,00.html
argv[3] animationatstart true
argv[4] transparentatstart true
argv[5] autostart true
argv[6] controls imagewindow
argv[7] showcontrols true
argv[8] showstatusbar true
argv[9] showdisplay true
argv[10] name MediaPlayer
argv[11] bgcolor #B4BBCA
argv[12] width 384
argv[13] height 352
** Message: mSrcURI: /mpASX/0,1067333,sottosezione%253Drtvliverai3streaming%2526path%253Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmediapolis%255Erai%255Eit%252Frelinker%252FrelinkerServlet%255Ehtm%253Fcont%253D986%2526sezione%253Drtvstreaming,00.html
** Message: mCache: 0
** Message: mControllerHidden: 0
** Message: mShowStatusbar: 1
** Message: mHidden: 0
** Message: mAudioOnly: 0
** Message: mAutoPlay: 1, mRepeat: 0
** Message: Launching: /usr/lib/totem/totem-plugin-viewer --plugin-type gmp --user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008100320 GranParadiso/3.0.3 --mimetype video/x-msvideo --statusbar
** Message: Viewer spawned, PID 7118
** Message: Initial window set, XID 1a0094b size 384x352
** Message: No viewer proxy yet, deferring SetWindow
** Message: GetScriptableNPObject [0x9d07068]
** Message: Viewer DBus interface name is 'org.gnome.totem.PluginViewer_7118'
** Message: NameOwnerChanged old-owner '' new-owner ':1.345'
** Message: Viewer now connected to the bus
** Message: ViewerSetup
** Message: Calling SetWindow
Viewer: SetWindow XID 27265355 size 384:352
TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: STOPPED
** Message: NewStream mimetype 'text/html' URL 'http://www.rai.tv/mpASX/0,1067333,sottosezione%253Drtvliverai3streaming%2526path%253Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmediapolis%255Erai%255Eit%252Frelinker%252FrelinkerServlet%255Ehtm%253Fcont%253D986%2526sezione%253Drtvstreaming,00.html'
** Message: Not expecting a new stream; aborting stream
** Message: SetWindow reply
** Message: ViewerReady
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_open_uri: uri /mpASX/0,1067333,sottosezione%253Drtvliverai3streaming%2526path%253Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmediapolis%255Erai%255Eit%252Frelinker%252FrelinkerServlet%255Ehtm%253Fcont%253D986%2526sezione%253Drtvstreaming,00.html base_uri: http://www.rai.tv/mplive/0,,LiveTv%5E4,00.html
totem_embedded_set_uri uri (null) base (null) => resolved (null)
totem_embedded_set_uri uri /mpASX/0,1067333,sottosezione%253Drtvliverai3streaming%2526path%253Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmediapolis%255Erai%255Eit%252Frelinker%252FrelinkerServlet%255Ehtm%253Fcont%253D986%2526sezione%253Drtvstreaming,00.html base http://www.rai.tv/mplive/0,,LiveTv%5E4,00.html => resolved http://www.rai.tv/mpASX/0,1067333,sottosezione%25253Drtvliverai3streaming%252526path%25253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fmediapolis%25255Erai%25255Eit%25252Frelinker%25252FrelinkerServlet%25255Ehtm%25253Fcont%25253D986%252526sezione%25253Drtvstreaming,00.html
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_open_internal 'http://www.rai.tv/mpASX/0,1067333,sottosezione%25253Drtvliverai3streaming%252526path%25253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fmediapolis%25255Erai%25255Eit%25252Frelinker%25252FrelinkerServlet%25255Ehtm%25253Fcont%25253D986%252526sezione%25253Drtvstreaming,00.html' is-browser-stream 0 start-play 1
TotemEmbedded-Message: BEFORE _open
TotemEmbedded-Message: AFTER _open (ret: 1)
TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: PLAYING
** Message: OpenURI reply
** Message: Command 'Play'
** Message: Error: Could not determine type of stream.
gsttypefindelement.c(515): gst_type_find_element_handle_event (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstTypeFindElement:typefind

TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: STOPPED
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_set_error: 'Could not determine type of stream.'
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_set_error_logo called by browser plugin

"""

probably, these are the updates which have caused the problem

[2008-10-21 23:37] upgraded totem-plparser (2.22.3-1 -> 2.24.1-1)
[2008-10-21 23:37] upgraded totem (2.22.2-3 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2008-10-21 23:37] upgraded totem-plugin (2.22.2-1 -> 2.24.2-1)

btw the problem still exits even with the latest updates


Additional info:
installed package version(s) are:

totem 2.24.2-2
totem-plparser 2.24.2-1
totem-plugin 2.24.2-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.21-1
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.21-1
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.21-1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.13-2
gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.9-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.9-1


Steps to reproduce:

1. install the following packages:
totem-plugin
gstreamer0.10 0.10.21-1
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.21-1
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.21-1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.5-1
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.13-2
gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.9-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.9-1

2. point firefox to the url: http://www.rai.tv/mplive/0,,LiveTv%5E4,00.html