Parole does not play mp4 video with h264 codec

Bug #1272994 reported by Sergio Benjamim
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
parole (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Jackson Doak

Bug Description

After installed xubuntu-restrited-extras, i tried to play a mp4 video with h264 codec, but parole does not plays it. A window opens, asking to install the correct package, it try to search and does not work/find.

Is it related to bug #1253071 ? There is no gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg in trusty repository.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: parole 0.5.4-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
Date: Sun Jan 26 22:13:26 2014
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140126)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: parole
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2) wrote :
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Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2) wrote :
description: updated
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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

Yes, it needs gsstreamer0.10-ffmpeg. Sigh...

The good news is that parole 0.6.0 has been released and it defaults to gstreamer1.0. I hope it makes it into Debian and/or Trusty before release.

Importance Low (Bugs that have a moderate impact on a non-core application )

Changed in parole (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

"Hope" isn't too acceptable a word here. 14.04 releases that use parole as the Default media player can not release with a virtually worthless player.
So put parole-0.6+ in the repos

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Jackson Doak (noskcaj) wrote :

parole 0.6 has been packaged. We will upload it sometime this next week unless debian upload sit, in which case it will be sooner.

Changed in parole (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Jackson Doak (noskcaj)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Jackson Doak (noskcaj) wrote :

Bumped priority to medium, since it is a core app for xubuntu.

Changed in parole (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
no longer affects: parole
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Jimmy Sjölund (jimmy-sjolund) wrote :

I have the similar issue on Ubuntu Studio 14.04. The difference is that Parole do find a plugin when doing the search, begin to install it, but then it just loops back to the "Additional software is required" box.

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Jackson Doak (noskcaj) wrote :

Fixed in trusty

Changed in parole (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2) wrote :

It is not possible to install any codec with this 0.6.0 version:

"GStreamer backend error
Could not initialize support library"

parole
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
(parole:4117): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 769 was not found when attempting to remove it

parole --gst-version
GStreamer Core Library version 1.2.2

parole --gst-debug-level=1
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
0:00:05.727461730 4432 0xb7dea740 ERROR playbin gstplaybin2.c:5136:activate_group:<player> failed to activate sinks
(parole:4432): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 881 was not found when attempting to remove it

parole --gst-debug-level=1
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
0:00:07.239493566 4577 0xb982d740 ERROR playbin gstplaybin2.c:5136:activate_group:<player> failed to activate sinks
(parole:4577): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 701 was not found when attempting to remove it

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