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gst-plugins-base0.10 package

gstreamer-based media apps cannot determine file length

Bug #450270 reported by Zaur Nasibov
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gst-plugins-base
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gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

gstreamer-based applications (Rhytmbox, Totem) do not show playing "time", and don't allow seeking the file.

Expected: file seeking while playing, "time" column shows files' lengths properly
What I get: Please see attached screenshot of Rhytmbox.

The music file types are mp'3, flac's and ogg's (and maybe others)
The video files (Totem) are avi, mkv (H.264, DivX, XviD, and maybe others)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 13 14:19:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.25-2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: gst-plugins-base0.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

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Zaur Nasibov (basicwolf) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Zaur Nasibov (basicwolf) wrote :

There it goes: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598268

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Stefan Horning (stefan-horning) wrote :

Can confirm the bug here.

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10

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Changed in gst-plugins-base:
status: Unknown → New
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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

The mkv problem should be fixed in GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.24. From the release notes:

# 620358 : [matroskademux] Sorenson Squish WebM output seeking issues
# 620743 : matroskademux: refactor delta unit handling

Those are GNOME bug numbers. The corresponding bug reports are at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620358
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620743

Please test with the Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" alpha 3 CD. After booting, and before testing, please use Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade Totem and the gstreamer packages, in particular the update of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good to 0.10.24.3-1ubuntu1

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

Sorry, I meant Live CD.

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

The ogg and flac problem should be fixed in GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.30. From the release notes:

Bugs fixed in this release
619396 : gstreamer does not seek http streams of Ogg Vorbis and Flac audio files.
620939 : [oggdemux] No support for Skeleton 4.0 streams

Those are GNOME bug numbers. The corresponding bug reports are at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619396
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620939

Please test with the Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" alpha 3 CD. After booting, and before testing, please use Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade Totem and the gstreamer packages, in particular the update of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good to 0.10.24.3-1ubuntu1

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Changed in gst-plugins-base:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

There is another mkv fix in GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.25. From the release notes:

Features of this release:

# seeking in matroska and webm files that don't have an index
# matroskademux: support seeking in local files even if they don't have an index
# 617368 : [matroska] Implement push-mode seeking and non-cue seeking

That last one has a GNOME bug number - the corresponding bug report is at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617368

They don't seem to have included the bug reference (if there was one) for the local file case.

Please test with the Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" beta CD. After booting, and before testing, please use Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade Totem and the gstreamer packages, in particular the update of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good to 0.10.25-4ubuntu1

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gst-plugins-base:
status: New → Expired
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