Bug 1306456

Summary:	Totem cannot play anything, fixed in upstream gstreamer
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alexandre Mazari <scaroo>
Component:	gstreamer1	Assignee:	Wim Taymans <wtaymans>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	bdpepple, cschalle, luto, uraeus, wtaymans
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Description Alexandre Mazari 2016-02-10 22:13:53 UTC

Description of problem:
As used within Totem, current gstreamer1-plugins-base (1.7.1) hinder media playing. I tried both uncompressed audio (wav) and simple video codec (mpeg1) without success.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.7.1

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
 $ totem /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Actual results:
No sound comes from the speakers, error message in totem UI: "This file cannot be played over the network. Try downloading it locally first."

Expected results:
A smooth voice saying "Front Center" is output from speakers.

Additional info:
Issues regarding capacities negociation shows up in the logs (GST_DEBUG=5) as reported (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760867)

I was pointed to a gstreamer bug/patch that indeed fixed the issue locally:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760867

Unfortunately, this patch didn't made it yet into a gstreamer release.

Would you concider backporting the fix ?

Comment 1 Alexandre Mazari 2016-02-10 22:24:11 UTC

Oops. The actual gstreamer fix can be found at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760234

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 15:34:02 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 3 Andy Lutomirski 2016-04-07 15:24:10 UTC

This (or a similar bug) appears to affect Fedora 23 as well, and it prevents Firefox from playing any video at all, too.

$ gst-play-1.0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Press 'k' to see a list of keyboard shortcuts.
Now playing /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
0:00:00.0 / 0:00:01.4 

And it sits there like that forever without playing anything.

Comment 4 Andy Lutomirski 2016-04-07 17:29:59 UTC

(In reply to Andy Lutomirski from comment #3)
> This (or a similar bug) appears to affect Fedora 23 as well, and it prevents
> Firefox from playing any video at all, too.

Please disregard.  Pulseaudio got stuck, and it was stuck hard enough that it didn't recover when I logged out and back in, and gstreamer was getting stuck behind it.

Comment 5 Wim Taymans 2016-04-08 08:35:06 UTC

please test again with 1.8 version in f24 now and reopen if the problem still exists