Incorrect audio in AC-3 encoded AVI file with Totem/Gstreamer

[Matteo Settenvini]

There are files that play fine in mplayer, but are played with incorrect sound/very-low volume in Totem using Gstreamer. I don't have any DB Surround 5.1 hardware, just my laptop speakers on a cheap Intel soundcard :-).

I'm attaching one of the culprits. It's a nine-second sample re-encoded with video low-quality, but audio left untouched in AC-3. This should qualify as fair use by US copyright law, afaik.

[Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog)]

This sample shows the problem. This happens with latest Gstreamer 0.10.14 and Totem 2.19.6 on Gutsy.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. The video is played the same way by mplayer and totem on my gutsy installation. Do you have the same issue if you read it using gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/video?

[Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog)]

Sebastien: Yes, the problem is GStreamer related. I can see (hear?) the problem doing as you suggest, with gst-launch.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

reassigning to gstreamer0.10

[Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog)]

A quick update: should be fixed as of now in Intrepid; I'm using gstreamer 0.10.10-1 and totem plays it okay.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Thanks, marking as fixed.