I can confirm this bug. A workaround that worked for me, was to downgrade from the debian-multimedia.org versions of libavcodec52 and libavformat52 to the testing versions:
debian-multimedia.org's versions: * libavcodec52 5:0.5+svn20091118-0.0 * libavformat52 5:0.5+svn20091118-0.0 * result: totem cannot playback xvid files. There is no crash, but the window remains black and there is no playback. official debian.org versions: * libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2+b1 * libavformat52 4:0.5+svn20090706-2+b1 * result: totem works as expected. -- Aleksey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org