gnome-mplayer cant play .mid files

[cjae]

The player is either frozen or never starts small .mid sound file. Launched from firefox

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-mplayer 1.0.5-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 29 05:36:17 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-mplayer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-04 (24 days ago)

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

I guess mplayer just doesn't support mid files. Could you please run gnome-mplayer from a shell with gnome-mplayer -v and load the mid file? This should give you

  ERROR: Failed to recognize file format.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-mplayer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

not exactly.
Lubuntu 12.04, gnome-mplayer 1.0.5-1 using http://mb-s2.sakura.ne.jp/tirol/junk/midi/smetana_vltava.mid yields:

---

GNOME MPlayer v1.0.5
gmtk v1.0.5
Running with GIO support
Using audio device: Default
The volume on 'Default' is 1.000000
Using match: type='signal',interface='com.gnome.mplayer'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys'
Proxy connections and Command connected
opening playlist
playlist detection = 0
adding file:///home/wxl/Downloads/smetana_vltava.mid to playlist (cancel = 0)
getting file metadata for /home/wxl/Downloads/smetana_vltava.mid
mplayer -vo null -ao null -nomsgcolor -nomsgmodule -frames 0 -noidx -identify -nocache -noidle /home/wxl/Downloads/smetana_vltava.mid
playing - file:///home/wxl/Downloads/smetana_vltava.mid
is playlist 0
Looking for cover art at /home/wxl/Downloads/cover.jpg
Looking for cover art at /home/wxl/Downloads/Folder.jpg
setting up mplayer
mplayer -channels 2 -af-add export=/tmp/mplayer-af_exportppjcpw:512 -quiet -slave -noidle -noconsolecontrols -nostop-xscreensaver -identify -volume 100 -softvol -msglevel all=5 -osdlevel 0 -delay 0.000000 -subdelay 0.000000 -subpos 0 -sub-fuzziness 0 -wid 0x6600023 -brightness 0 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -alang Zuni,zun -slang Zuni,zun -nomsgcolor -nomsgmodule -nokeepaspect -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-font-scale 1.00 -ass-color ffffff00 -cache 2000 /home/wxl/Downloads/smetana_vltava.mid
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
ERROR: mplayer: could not connect to socket
ERROR: mplayer: No such file or directory
ERROR: Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /home/wxl/Downloads/smetana_vltava.mid.

Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)

libavformat version 53.21.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_VIDEO_ID=0

Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF
in media state change with state = 0

---

it seems to be using libav, which doesn't seem to support midi: https://libav.org/general.html#Audio-Codecs
on the other hand, this discussion suggests that it is indeed true that mplayer does not support midi: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/231421

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

On 05/09/12 08:11, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> it seems to be using libav, which doesn't seem to support midi: https://libav.org/general.html#Audio-Codecs
> on the other hand, this discussion suggests that it is indeed true that mplayer does not support midi: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/231421

I think it's best if gnome-mplayer.desktop stops claiming that it handles
audio/midi as the default configuration clearly doesn't support it. I'll take
that to Debian and update this bug as soon as I have a bug number.

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

if you can make mplayer support .mid file, which it can with the right options then the code works. I know as I have done it here. So if you mplayer is not packaged to support .mid files then you should drop audio/midi from the list of supported types.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-mplayer - 1.0.7-1

---------------
gnome-mplayer (1.0.7-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Team upload.
  * New upstream release.
  * debian/patches:
    - remove-audio-midi-from-desktop.patch: Remove audio/mime from the list of
      supported mime types. mplayer doesn't support midi files, so
      gnome-mplayer doesn't either. (Closes: #686762) (LP: #1005861)
    - fix-errors-with-hardening-flags.patch: Removed, merged upstream.
    - fallback-to-nonsymbolic-icons.patch: If the icon theme doesn't support
      symbolic icons, fallback to hicolor icons.
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Build-Dep on libgmtk-dev to >= 1.0.7.
    - Don't Build-Dep on libgpod-dev on hurd-i386. It's not available there.
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes required).
  * debian/copyright:
    - Update copyright years.
    - Add myself.
  * debian/rules: Build with verbose build output.

 -- Sebastian Ramacher <email address hidden> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:47:10 +0100