Enabling BBC plugin dramatically slows totem initialisation

Some output when running totem with the BBC plug-in loaded (I also get a horribly slow init time for totem):

** (totem:11679): DEBUG: Creating object of type BBCViewer+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:11679): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/bbc/bbc.py", line 48, in activate
    self.view = ContentView()
  File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/bbc/contentview.py", line 638, in __init__
    if not self.pool.load():
  File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/bbc/contentview.py", line 590, in load
    cache_fn = self.ensureCache()
  File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/bbc/contentview.py", line 571, in ensureCache
    cache_file.delete()

This should be fixed by Collabora's top priority at the moment, namely converting all the network access to use asynchronous I/O. The delay is because it's downloading the feed from the BBC's site.

Let's track Jono's output as bug 276959.

This is the output, when I run totem from command line:

** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: BBCViewer+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Creating object of type BBCViewer+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
cache file name /home/doru/.cache/totem/plugins/bbc/content-000000-00000-00000000.cache
loading available content failed
** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Creating object of type YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:6713): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance

After the plugin is loaded it still not working. In alpha4 and alpha5 it worked well.

Same here. Is the BBC Content available only to people in the UK?

Being in the UK or not has nothing to do with this bug. (My understanding is that the BBC are going to provide a UK feed and an international feed, determined server-side by GeoIP. Some content will only be in the UK feed, but the international feed will not be empty by any means.)

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.24.1-0ubuntu3

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totem (2.24.1-0ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/65_bbc-plugin.patch:
    - Update from Collabora, including:
      + Switch to production feed URL (LP: #274740).
      + Update format mappings, including Ogg, ASF, MP3, Matroska, WMA, WMV,
        Flash video, and Dirac.
      + Take configured connection speed into account when selecting the
        best encoding for an episode.
  * debian/control.in:
    - Depend/build-depend on python-gtk2(-dev) (>= 2.13.0) for BBC plugin.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:22:41 +0100

Sorry, I shouldn't have closed this bug. You can at least now fetch BBC content again, but network access is still synchronous, so this bug is still open.

I'll test once totem 2.24.1-0ubuntu3 appears in my updates list. At the moment I am at
Installed: 2.24.1-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.24.1-0ubuntu2

It is really impressive. Great thing. I liked the Dirac Test. Although, one problem: a lot of items are displayed but when I clicked on them it said "An error occured|Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file." Why is it displayed then?

Colin, I realise that this is not the proper place to raise this issue, could you give me the bug number for the issue I'm seeing or tell me if I need to create a new bug report.

Thanks again,
Dan.

I'm still working on the async loading, it should be ready soon.

Thanks Tim, the async loading would be great. As it stands know, I can wait if I want to play BBC content, but not if I just started Totem for song or something.

Bug seems to have been resolved with the updates that arrived this morning - or?

Ron: not as such, no, but I just got an update from Collabora in my mailbox that should deal with it. I'll upload it once I've tested it a bit.

well I am no expert - but all that has been done here that seems at all
relevant is the big (166 files - ) partial update that was done this
morning. The fact that I have upgraded the cpu also from amd x24200 to a
5000 doesnt make things slower either heheh.

ron b.

Colin Watson schrieb:
> Ron: not as such, no, but I just got an update from Collabora in my
> mailbox that should deal with it. I'll upload it once I've tested it a
> bit.
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu Intrepid)
> Status: Triaged => In Progress
>
>

further to this theme.. please don't break it again...! ;=)

ron b.

Colin Watson schrieb:
> Ron: not as such, no, but I just got an update from Collabora in my
> mailbox that should deal with it. I'll upload it once I've tested it a
> bit.
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu Intrepid)
> Status: Triaged => In Progress
>
>

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.24.2-0ubuntu2

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totem (2.24.2-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/65_bbc-plugin.patch:
    - Update from Collabora, including:
      + Do network I/O, rdf parsing and apt.Cache() loading asynchronously
        or in a dedicated thread (LP: #274740).
      + Show loading progress and error messages in case of failure.
      + Fix installable codec check when the first codec in the list is
        installed but a subsequent one is not.
    - Note upstream bug in patch header.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:53:06 +0100