Opening a link to any media that is known to play otherwise on standalone totem, just shows up a blank page (or space on the page) - and the plugin doesn't show up. There's no error either, and the browser's status just says "Done". I've tried with totem from either gnome-2.12 and gnome-2.14. emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre7-r3 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2006.0/G4, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16 ppc 7447A, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -ftree-vectorize -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -ftree-vectorize -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/gentopia /usr/local/xgl-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X a52 aac acl alsa altivec apache2 avahi beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cairo caps cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif expat fam fastbuild fbcon firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp galago gd gdbm gif glitz gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg ldap libg++ libnotify libsexy libwww logrotate mad matroska memlimit mikmod mng mono mp3 mpeg nautilus ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl pic pie png pnp posix ppds pppd python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl svg symlink tcpd theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xml xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_ati" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LINGUAS
Please test with totem-2.16.2-r1 as a similar issue on amd64 and x86 has been resolved. Marking as fixed for now.