Comment 21 for bug 191027

I'm getting this as well on a dell inspiron 1420. Video playback worked properly a month or two ago, so it's been updates since then that broke it.

I suspect the commenters on this bug are seeing at least two separate bugs. One where shifting to a different sound system makes it work (although poorly), and another where the sound hardware is not getting detected properly. The issue I'm seeing falls into this latter category.

In this case, the issue does not seem to be in totem but in something lower down - amongst the snd kernel modules I'm guessing. Perhaps something needs to be more properly configured with alsa?