The YouTube plugin for Totem doesn't know the proper URL to download the video. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run 'totem', and enable the YouTube plugin in Totem (under the Edit menu) 2. Do a search for YouTube videos 3. Pick one, double-click on it to play it. 4. Watch a dialog box pop up that says: "An error has occurred. Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file." On the command line, the following output appears when trying to play a YouTube video: ** Message: Error: "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=iIT7t2jtdP0&t=vjVQa1PpcFP6TplO8EWtjI_LOj1SagPQL-Ao_xAQRAA%3D": Not Found gstsouphttpsrc.c(1099): gst_soup_http_src_parse_status (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin1/GstSoupHTTPSrc:source: 404 Not Found Other distro's appear to have had this issue and fixed it, as revealed with a Google search for: totem youtube "could not open location" My 'emerge --info' is below: Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r1-i686-Mobile_Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/serkan-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bmp bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd exif fortran gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 jpeg lm_sensors mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python raw readline session sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff unicode usb x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel" XFCE_PLUGINS="trash menu brightness" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
what version of totem and totem-pl-parser ?
(In reply to comment #1) > what version of totem and totem-pl-parser ? media-video/totem = 2.30.2 dev-libs/totem-pl-parser = 2.30.1
I can confirm this bug. It is also present on my system. It seems to be related to changes in Youtube itself: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625013 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/609855 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625441 My emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5000+-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.klid.dk/gentoo/ http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/gentoo/" LANG="da_DK.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="da nb sv en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi aim alsa amd64 ao apache2 apm atm audiofile autoipd avahi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi bluetooth bsf bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdb cdda cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cgi cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups curl curlwrappers cvs cxx dbase dbi dbus dbx dga directfb djvu doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr eds encode enscript evo examples exif expat extras fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flatfile fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran freetds ftp gcj gd gdbm gdu geoip ggi gif gimp glut gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnuplot gnustep gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps graphviz gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile gzip hal hddtemp iconv icq icu idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile innodb iodbc ipod ipv6 jabber jack jadetex java javascript jbig jingle joystick jpeg jpeg2k kerberos ladspa lame lapack lash latex lcms ldap libcaca libedit libgda libnotify libsamplerate libwww lm_sensors lua lzo m17n-lib mad mailwrapper matroska mbox mcve mdnsresponder-compat mhash mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng modplug modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi msn mtp mudflap mule multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nas nautilus ncurses neXt netboot netcdf networking networkmanager nis nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ocaml ocamlopt odbc offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp osc oscar oss pam pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdf perl php plotutils png policykit portaudio posix postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qdbm qt4 quicktime radius raw rdesktop readline recode rss ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session sharedext sharedmem shorten simplexml skey slang slp smartcard smp sndfile snmp soap sockets socks5 source sox speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification subversion suid svg symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc szip taglib tcl tcpd theora threads tidy tiff timidity tk tokenizer truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts videos vim-syntax vnc vorbis wavpack wddx wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xface xft xinerama xinetd xml xmlrpc xmp xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xsl xv xvid yahoo yaz zeroconf zlib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="da nb sv en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS --- media-video/totem = 2.30.2 dev-libs/totem-pl-parser = 2.30.1
The problem appears solved by this patch: http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/patch/?id=50027abd715acc24978e7830162c70c7e1a05811
This is fixed then in 2.32
And just tested it works fine with totem-2.32.0
