22.04 - Videos 'cannot find' any videos (VLC works fine)

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Attempting to open videos in multiple formats (tried .webm and .mp4 so far) results in ‘specified movie could not be found’ errors in Videos.

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I’ve moved them into multiple folders with the same result. If I hit the upper left button ’ < ’ I can see the file just fine:

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However selecting it throws the same error.

Dragging the file into the player causes it to close immediately. VLC opens everything with no issues.

UPDATE: Videos updated from v41 to v42 today. Same issue persists, but was able to submit a bug report.

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Thanks, could you share the bug number reference?

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1965809

Another round of updates today and it was finally working for the first time as of my last brief session.

(EDIT- It worked that once and hasn’t again since)

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Run this command:

sudo apt remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi

Got my solution from this article, check it out too.
https://www.makeuseof.com/things-to-do-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-2204-lts/

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This thread should probably move to https://launchpad.net/bugs/1969512