Totem stops buffering and won't play a movie stream if the initial cache fill fails

[Kjmph]

If you attempt to load a large movie, say an HD trailer at Apple's Quicktime Movie trailer page, if the initial cache fill fails Totem quits attempting to fill the buffer. However, if Totem makes it through that initial cache fill, subsequent network delays properly pause the video to refill the cache and continue to play once this is done.

Testing this with mplayer, you can bump up the size of the cache and the cache-min value before playing. This wades through the network delay and makes it to starting the movie.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? How do you know that the "cache fill fails"? How do you trigger the bug?

[Kjmph (kjmph)]

I use Feisty Fawn. Totem version 2.18.1.

I believe the "cache fill fails" because the progress bar on the bottom scrolls and stops before it hits 100% for the initial stream load. The same thing occurs when the network stream is unable to keep up the bitrate as fast as the movie progresses. IE: it pauses to recache the stream during playback. However, when the movie has already started to play subsequent pauses appropriately wait util the cache fills back up and then continue. It almost appears as if the initial load has a timeout on it.

I trigger the "bug" by loading a HD (480p) movie trailer off of Apple's Quicktime movie trailer site. I don't always hit it, just sometimes.

Once again, mplayer doesn't exhibit this issue.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you use totem-gstreamer or totem-xine?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.