Bug 442481

Summary:	Nautilus Sound preview works for .mp3's, but not for Vorbis .ogg's/.FLAC's
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gian Paolo Mureddu <gmureddu>
Component:	gstreamer	Assignee:	Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8
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Description Gian Paolo Mureddu 2008-04-15 01:27:55 UTC

Description of problem:
Nautilus' Sound Preview works perfectly fine with audio files encoded in the
proprietary .mp3 format, but fails to preview files encoded with the free Vorbis
codec and encapsulated into .ogg files. Same for FLAC files. Wav files play also
fine.

Looking at what application is the one responsible for actually providing
Nautilus with sound preview using Pavucontrol, I saw that this was gst-launcher,
which is part of the gstreamer package, as such I marked this bug against
Gstreamer and not Nautilus as such, as Gstreamer is the one providing the
backend support. Since I have installed the GStreamer-Plugins-Ugly package for
the necessary .mp3 format support, I imagine that is the reason why .mp3's and
.wav's are previewed, but not so .ogg's and FLACs. Since Totem can perfectly
playback ogg files and FLAC files, I'd assume that the gstreamer plugin for
handling these is already installed, only not used by gst-launcher or for some
reason not parsed to gst-launcher for preview.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.20.0-9.fc8
gstreamer-0.10.15-1.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Head to /usr/share/sounds in Nautilus and hover the mouse over the many .wav
and .ogg files there.
2. Create or download a legal .mp3, install the plugins so gstreamer can handle
it (fluendo) and hover the mouse over the file in Nautilus, the file should be
previewed just fine.
  
Actual results:
Sound Preview in Nautilus doesn't work for .ogg or .flac files.

Expected results:
Sound Preview to work with these file formats as well as it does with .wav on
default settings. Kind of dissapointing to see this "just work" with .mp3's ;-)

Comment 1 Gian Paolo Mureddu 2008-04-15 05:09:48 UTC

Forgot to mention that this happens in Fedora 8 x86_64

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2008-05-19 09:56:55 UTC

Do the files that you expect to be playing back actually have a sound icon
showing up on them when you hover?

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:29:47 UTC

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:23:17 UTC

Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:12:28 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days