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Running 17.10 (gnome session and xorg). I seem to have lost the ability to playback videos in Web(Epiphany), Videos(Totem) and Gthumb. Other applications such as VLC and Gnome MPV still work fine, as does Firefox. Have I accidentally disrupted a dependency or something? Any help would be very welcome!

Thanks!

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To add a little more detail i was geting audio but no image just a green screen in all the named apps. This solved it: sudo apt purge gstreamer1.0-vaapi

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  • I have a very similar issue on 18.04, for which I created bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer-vaapi/+bug/1784242 . I suppose it comes from a bad VAAPI support on some specific CPUs (Core i5 M 540 in my case). I use the same workaround
    – Mossroy
    Aug 17, 2018 at 20:59
  • similar for me with a i7 3770. After applying this workaround, the video plays, but in a separate window - anyone know of a fix to that?
    – codeling
    Nov 18, 2018 at 16:50

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