This may help someone find the true cause of this bug, but I tried removing gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio and then installing gnome-alsa mixer and rebooting and the problem went away.
>From here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9365153 sudo apt-get remove gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer reboot -- totem not playing video files "Disconnected: Connection terminated" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410047 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs