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ffdemux_swf: Element doesn't implement handling of this stream.

Bug #163380 reported by thekip on 2007-11-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #96803: Rhythmbox won't play stream. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	totem (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I was trying to open a file from:
http://www.allabout-sp.net/?p=season9/903

The first time I tried to open the movie I got a nice popup about missing codecs so I should install one. I installed FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer, after doing so I got the error mentioned in the title.

Funny thing is that I have another Gutsy install in which it does work, the installation that has the error is about 4 hours old so no weird things done to this one (except modifying acpi_cpufreq.ko).

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thekip (thekip) wrote on 2007-11-17:

I just found out that the file is loaded through some sort of swf file so maybe it's more related to flash rather then totem.

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Rodney Halaquist (rhalaquist) wrote on 2007-11-30:

I am also having problem, tried viewing http://www.layersmagazine.com/photorealistic-illustration.html and I get: An error occurred... ffdemux_swf: Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file bug.

Ok what I am using as far as browser, etc.: Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.10
Other info:
-Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.20.0
File name: libtotem-basic-plugin.so
The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/ogg Ogg multimedia ogg Yes
audio/ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes
audio/x-ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes
video/ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes
video/x-ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes
video/mpeg MPEG video mpg, mpeg, mpe Yes
audio/wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/x-wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/mpeg MP3 audio mp3 Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3 NSV video nsv Yes
video/flv Flash video flv Yes

-Shockwave Flash
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
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This is more but I assume that these if they are the only information relevant to the problme (came from about:plugins)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-12-04:

Thanks for your report, does gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=address works? may you test ?

Changed in totem:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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thekip (thekip) wrote on 2007-12-24:

thekip@lapkip:~$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://www.allabout-sp.net/ep.swf?url=http://content.movies.myspace.com/0017703/38/48/1770318483.flv
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
ERROR: from element /playbin0/decodebin0/ffdemux_swf0: Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file a bug.
Additional debug info:
gstffmpegdemux.c(1305): gst_ffmpegdemux_sink_activate_push (): /playbin0/decodebin0/ffdemux_swf0:
failed to activate sinkpad in pull mode, push mode not implemented yet
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

This is what I got, hope this helps

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LeBurt (burt-crepeault) wrote on 2008-04-12:

I also got the same message but in a different setting. I was trying the YouTube plugin in Totem and picked a random video (http://www.youtube.com/v/EqBD_rmIU4A). The error occurred when Totem got to that item in the playlist. I tried gst-launch and got pretty much the same as above:

burt@ciabata:~$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://www.youtube.com/v/EqBD_rmIU4A
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
** Message: don't know how to handle application/x-shockwave-flash
ERROR: from element /ffdemux_swf0: Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file a bug.
Additional debug info:
gstffmpegdemux.c(1372): gst_ffmpegdemux_sink_activate_push (): /playbin0/decodebin0/ffdemux_swf0:
failed to activate sinkpad in pull mode, push mode not implemented yet
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...