Description of problem: Upgraded to rhythmbox-0.11.3-7.fc8+GNOME-2.20.3, rebooted, started GNOME session, tried to open an MPEG video file. Previously Totem showed those files all ok, now Rhythmbox hijacks them all but fails miserably as no video is shown, only audio is sometimes played. Same happens with all other video type files. And no, using System->Preferences->Personal->Preferred Applications does not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhythmbox-0.11.3-7.fc8 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure Totem as default multimedia app 2. Doubleclick on a video file, e.g., an MPEG file 3. See how Rhythmbox fails miserably to show any video Actual results: Rhythmbox is started but it just hangs or sometimes only plays audio. I am frustrated. Expected results: Totem plays show my video clip. Additional info: I even removed all my settings under my home directory, started GNOME with clean table, but still the problem persists.
I don't see that here. Does it still happen for you? What's the mime-type nautilus gives you for the file (right-click->properties)? Which version of shared-mime-info are you using? If it shows up as something that's not an audio file, could you please get the first 1000k of the file ("dd if=file.mpg of=test.mpg bs=1024 count=1000"), and make them available?
Thanks for looking into this. With latest updates for Fedora 8 as of 2008-03-27 I still see this problem. To reproduce I did this: # init 3 # useradd mrtest # passwd mrtest <logout everybody, login as mrtest> $ startx $ wget http://www.redhat.com/v/magazine/ogg/cox-issues.ogg Properties for the file is video/x-theora+ogg. When double clicked, Rhythmbox is trying to play it. If I open Totem and drag the file to it, video plays ok. localhost:~> rpm -q shared-mime-info shared-mime-info-0.23-1.fc8 localhost:~> rpm -V shared-mime-info localhost:~>
There's unfortunately nothing we can do here. Ogg files (video and/or audio) used to all have the .ogg suffix. Rename your file to .ogv, and it should work as expected.
But this happens also with .mpg and .wmv files :(
And, yes, with .ogv. If I rename the file mentioned above, it is also opened with Rhythmbox.
shared-mime-info-0.23-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
shared-mime-info-0.23-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update shared-mime-info'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2786
I'm happy to confirm that shared-mime-info-0.23-2.fc8 fixes the issue. Thanks!
Leave a positive comment on the update page then.
Long since fixed and verified, closing.