Description of problem: When one first tries to open a realvideo rtsp stream (say, using firefox) in RHEL5, Totem pops up and then tells you that "RTSPstreams cannot be played yet" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shared-mime-info-0.19-3.el5 totem-2.16.4-2.el5 How reproducible: on first install Steps to Reproduce: 1. open up a web page in firefox containing an rtsp URL eg: http://mitworld.mit.edu/stream/310 2. attempt to play the video Actual results: Download manager appears, ram file is downloaded, Totem opens and then gives an error. Expected results: a player that can play rtsp streams (like mplayer) would open. Additional info: installing the actual RealPlayer rpm does not fix the problem. one has to manually edit the /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
2 things: 1. the eg url I used above is sessioned. if you don't have your own favorite rtsp url to go to, open http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/310 and then set your prefs. 2. it seems as though gconf also has totem as the default rtsp url handler, which is probably a more serious offense
(In reply to comment #1) > 2. it seems as though gconf also has totem as the default rtsp url handler, > which is probably a more serious offense Which works if you have the right plugins installed (which aren't shipped in RHEL...). I'll remove handling RAM files from Totem for RHEL and the rtsp handler.
I guess a good approach might be to have a UI element that tells the user about the lack of support and offers help (like finding the libs on your system if you have, in fact, installed realplayer or the win32 codecs or showing you were to download such things if you haven't). I believe xmms was pre-configured to do something similar with a bogus mp3 plugin in feodra... near as I can tell Totem would want to use gstreamer-plugins-good for the rtsp bit anyway, which is an rpm-requires for totem to install in the first place. so I guess it is only the support for actual codecs... -alan
RTSP is only in much newer version of gstreamer-plugins-base, and I'm not even sure it handles the RTSP Real uses (which isn't a standard one). So disabling it is the best solution for now (as we don't ship the most usual codecs for Real Video/Audio either).
Patch committed and building. Totem part of the bug is now in bug #318701.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0015.html