Totem unable to play video on Raspberry Pi: "could not initialize OpenGL support"

Bug #1998782 reported by Leó Kolbeinsson
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totem (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Testing Ubuntu Lunar Daily RaspPI 4 image dated 2022-12-05

I received this error trying to play the video "big_buck_bunny" in Totem as per the testcase:

This maybe a duplicate of the old bug 1969512 but as the error message is not the same a new bug is filed.

See attached screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: totem 43.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-1004.10-raspi 5.19.7
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-1004-raspi aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: arm64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Dec 5 11:24:38 2022
ImageMediaBuild: 20221205
LogAlsaMixer:
 Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
   Playback channels: Mono
   Limits: Playback -10239 - 400
   Mono: Playback -1988 [78%] [-19.88dB] [on]
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1998782

tags: added: iso-testing
tags: added: raspi
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Totem unable to play video : "could not initialize OpenGL support"
+ Totem unable to play video on Raspberry Pi: "could not initialize OpenGL
+ support"
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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :

This bug is still present in Ubuntu Daily Mantic RaspPI ISO dated 12-05-2023

tags: added: mantic
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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :

Update :

This bug is still present in Ubuntu Daily Mantic RaspPI ISO dated 01-09-2023

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Dave Jones (waveform) wrote :

With the correct video codecs installed (for the particular test video I was using, I needed gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad which pulls in libav), this now works on the mantic final images, under both the Pi 4 and 5.

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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