Gstreamer media codec won't stop auto-launching itself in the software center

I'm running into a new issue that I've never had before. The software center is constantly auto-launching itself and navigating to a page for the "Gstreamer media codec" plugin. I cannot get it to stop happening, and it's getting rather irritating. If anyone is able to assist me in figuring out why, and getting it to stop, I would greatly appreciate it.

Below are some details of what's happening and what I have tried:
-This was a fresh install of Zorin OS 17.2 a few weeks ago, and it started happening within hours.
-I have run updates, both using the build in updater and also apt-get update and autoremove. It did not make a difference.
-This did NOT start (or at least it did not happen yet) until I tried to play one mp4 file using Zorin's default media player, Videos. It said it needed it to play so I installed it.
-This now continues to occur regardless of if gstreamer media codec is still installed or not (doesn't seem to matter if I remove it, reinstall it, install the other gstreamer plugins, etc), the software center will still auto launch to the store page for gstreamer.
-I tried installing, and uninstalling all gstreamer codec plugins (apparently there's a lot of them) but that did not change anything.
-This happens regardless if the computer or any software is in use (i.e. I am not doing anything to trigger it to need media plugins, watching videos, listening to music, etc). I tested this by setting the screen to not sleep, rebooting and not opening anything, and then going to have lunch. When I came back, the software center was open again and it was on the gstreamer codec page again.
-I believe it opens to a random gstreamer plugin out of the available ones, as it most commonly navigates to the "from the bad set" one, and I do not recall that being the one it was doing on day 1. So it has since at some point changed what it's navigating to, I am 97% sure.
-It's happening on average once an hour, however sometimes it will do it within a few minutes of the last time.

Can you try the following:

pkill gnome-software

rm -rf ~/.cache/gnome-software

rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-software

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade --fix-missing

sudo apt clean && sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-software

sudo dpkg --configure -a

The above will ensure that Gnome Software store is reset to its default state.

Is Zorin Core's default media player Celluloid or Totem?

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I just tried the above commands. I can't make it happen so I'll use my computer as normal and check back in in a bit.

This is Zorin pro, I don't see any app called Celluloid or Totem installed, however when I superkey search "totem" the Videos app comes up, so I'm going to say it's totem probably.

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The difference may have been made by clearing the Gnome Software Cache and restarting the service. But I would also freshly reinstall Totem, as well.

sudo apt install --reinstall totem

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Welcome to the Forum!

Is it one specific Codec?

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I haven't seen it happen yet, and I would have expected it to by now. I'll continue monitoring it but I think this worked, thank you!

For anyone checking in later, I also ran the totem reinstall command from the thread.

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