Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 232964
Switching sound track kills sound
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:59 EST
Description of problem: While playing a DVD (unencrypted) with multiply sound tracks, switching between tracks kills the sound. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): totem-2.18.0-1.fc7 How reproducible: Seems like 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play "Excel Saga" volume 1 (any ADV release will work, they are all unencrypted). 2. Switch from English to Japanese. 3. Sound is dead. Actual results: Sound is dead. Expected results: Japanese sound track. Additional info: The switch is done with Sound->Languages->Japanese. This function used to work in FC-5. Sorry, I didn't test any newer releases.
How did you launch totem? Do you see any errors on the command-line? If not, please attach the output of "GST_DEBUG=*:2 totem" and reproduce the problem.
In bug 232971, you don't mention having the gstreamer-plugins-ugly package installed, which means that AC3 decoding is done (probably badly) through ffmpeg. Could you try and install gstreamer-plugins-ugly (from livna as well), and let me know whether it fixes it? (The 2 audio tracks are probably in different formats, one in PCM audio, the other in AC3).
Created attachment 150406 [details] GST_DEBUG=*:2 totem dvd://2 This is the result of: GST_DEBUG=*:2 totem dvd://2 >totem.run 2>&1 </dev/null Nothing obvious has changed in the output when the sound died. Exactly the same thing kept scrolling before and after.
Looks like gstreamer-plugins-ugly is installed, and its architecture is compatible: [root@niphredil zaitcev]# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\\n" | grep gst gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.12-2.fc7.i386 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.5-1.lvn7.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.12-1.fc7.i386 gstreamer-tools-0.10.12-1.fc7.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.12-1.fc7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.12-2.fc7.x86_64 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.2-1.lvn7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.5-5.fc7.x86_64 [root@niphredil zaitcev]# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\\n" | grep totem totem-2.18.0-1.fc7.x86_64 totem-plparser-2.18.0-1.fc7.x86_64 [root@niphredil zaitcev]#
Japanese often ship DVDs with PCM audio, and actually I have a few. But this one is an R1. I ran mplayer -v dvd://2 and it printed this: DVD successfully opened. audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 128. audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: ja aid: 129. audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 130. audio stream: 3 format: ac3 (stereo) language: ja aid: 131. number of audio channels on disk: 4. Totem correctly shows 4 tracks in its menu, only it names them "English", "Japanese", "en #2", "ja #2".
Known upstream problem. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344706