Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 141012
AVI Files playing crooked and broken in Totem
Last modified: 2013-03-13 00:47:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Playing some (not sure if it's all) AVI video files in Totem with Gstreamer, the videos will play, but heavily distored - with the picture skewed at a 45-degree angle. I tried to take a screenshot of the video from within Totem, but Totem's Edit - Take Screenshot feature didn't seem to do anything. There's a link to one of the videos that was playing this way: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/demos/gimp/toolbox.avi The same videos display normally/properly in mplayer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1 gstreamer-0.8.7-3 totem-0.99.19-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open video (http://jimmac.musichall.cz/demos/gimp/toolbox.avi) in Totem 2. Play 3. Watch in horror
I can confirm this problem; it seems to be caused by the esdsink plugin. All pipelines that end in esdsink have distorted output; this doesn't depend on the stream source. As a workaround, configure gstreamer to use osssink (or alsasink, but that one tends to crash with some streams - see also #142823.) (gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1, gstreamer-0.8.7-4.FC3.0)
I investigated a little further, and I think the problem is not caused by gstreamer/gstreamer-plugins (at least in my case.) I installed the same packages (including gstreamer-*, alsa-*, kernel-*) on my notebook, and everything works ok there. Seems to be a problem of the sound driver, or maybe even the hardware; on-board soundcards suck. Sorry about the noise :-)
1. I'm pretty sure that this video requires codecs which don't ship by default, like gstreamer-ffmpeg or the new gstreamer-plugins-ugly. 2. With those plugins, this now plays fine for me. Please retest and (hopefully) close the bug.
Created attachment 125796 [details] screenshot of crooked nautilus thumbnail (In reply to comment #3) > 2. With those plugins, this now plays fine for me. Please retest and > (hopefully) close the bug. Still on FC4, but with ffmpeg available, this video does work now. However, the Nautilus thumbnail still shows the distorted/crooked version (screenshot attached)
Most likely just cached in your .thumbnails directory. You can delete the files in there if you want to fix the issue.
(In reply to comment #5) > Most likely just cached in your .thumbnails directory. You can delete the files > in there if you want to fix the issue. I assumed this was the case too. However, even after clearing out everthing in my .thumbnails dir, Nautilus regenerates the skewed-looking thumbnail.
Upgraded to FC5 and the upstream gstreamer-ffmpeg package for 0.10 and the thumbnail is fixed now too. All seems well.
In that case, let's close this bug, if it all works now.