[SOLVED] Clementine Refuses to Play MP4 (Missing Plugin)

I am having the same issue as described here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120851
Clementine is refusing to play mp4 files, giving the error: "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."
As an additional note, the mp4 files play perfectly in VLC.
What I have tried so far:
1. Installed gstreamer0.10-plugins group
2. Reinstalled faac and faad2
3. Reinstalled libmp4v2 and lame
4. Deleted directory ~/.local/share/gstreamer-1.0
However, even after these steps I am having the same issue.
Out of the multimedia/music players I've tried clementine most closely fits my needs, so I would like to stick with it.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how to fix it? Please let me know if I should provide any additional information. Thanks.
Last edited by WorkingOnIt (2014-05-26 03:01:08)

Thanks a lot for your reply. I do have gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg installed; I believe it's included in the gstreamer0.10-plugins group and just double-checked and it's there. I also just tried changing the extension to .m4a as you suggested but no luck; same error message.
And I do have those above codecs:
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep qtdemux" yields: "isomp4: qtdemux: QuickTime demuxer"
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep aacparse" yields: "ffmpeg: ffmux_adts: FFmpeg ADTS AAC muxer (not recommended, use aacparse instead) \n audioparsers: aacparse: AAC audio stream parser"
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep faad" yields: faad: faad: AAC audio decoder"
Here's the full output of gst-inspet-0.10 in case that's helpful, although it's a lot: http://pastebin.com/1Xet30CK
I checked VLC as you said, and for the mp4's,
audio codec: "MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)"
video codec: "H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)".
decoded format (video): "Planar 4:2:0 YUV".
The page gives some more information, but I don't think anything so relevant (channels, sample rate, resolution, etc).
Do you have any other ideas, and is there any additional information I should provide?

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