real videos do not work

[Nicolò Chieffo]

0.10.5-1ubuntu2
Whenever I open totem with a RealMedia video, I have an error (from the console output)

(totem:10425): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad realvideodec0:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
** Message: Error: GStreamer ha incontrato un errore generale di stream.
rmdemux.c(925): gst_rmdemux_loop (): /play/decodebin0/rmdemux0:
stream stopped, reason not-negotiated

If you want a .rm video to test, it is here:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/6470140/griffin-no-video.rm

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I tried with this command

gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/yelo3/griffin-no-video.rm

Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
sh: jackd: not found

(gst-launch-0.10:19375): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad realvideodec0:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
ERROR: from element /playbin0/decodebin0/rmdemux0: GStreamer encountered a general stream error.
Additional debug info:
rmdemux.c(925): gst_rmdemux_loop (): /playbin0/decodebin0/rmdemux0:
stream stopped, reason not-negotiated
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Seems to be a gstreamer issue

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

ok.. I cannot find where is the upstream for gstreamer. in freedesktop there is no entry for it, when adding a new bug.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

The right bug tracker is http://bugzilla.gnome.org

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I cannot add a bug, due to an error in mysql... anyway while I was
inserting my data I saw that the MAX version of gstreamer-plugins-bad
is reported to be 0.10.16 while in gutsy we have 0.10.5 why is
gstreamer kept to such an old version?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the list of versions if for gstreamer which is the product, it's not specific to the component

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Nicolo is up now go ahead and fill the bug, thanks.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

well, when the bug in bugzilla will go away and let me enter a new bug!

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Fixed upstream version 0.10.6 will we have this for gutsy? is it at least possible to port the patch to 0.10.5?

With this patch it plays fine with CVS everything.

       * gst/real/gstrealvideodec.c: (gst_real_video_dec_chain),
       (gst_real_video_dec_setcaps):
       Add some more debugging.
       Don't set LONG for width/height in caps.
       Set correct output buffer size when caps changed.
       The custom message sent to the decoder should not include the format
and
       subformat. Fixes #471554.

[USSR (samuel-lee-1991)]

Even in Totem (Graphical), Real Video can only be heard audio (Without Video) if you chose Totem-Gstreamer and it will prompt you for the package to install for the play of Real Video every time you play the Real Video (Any will do,serious.). However, whether if you chose Yes or No to find the package, I will still get to hear only audio because the package:Gstreamer FFMpeg plugin has already installed before I even start to play the video!
If you chose the "Option 2", Totem Xine, things would not get better. It got Video but no audio! Therefore, in the end, I could see but hear nothing in Totem XIne.Nothing will be prompted.
One fact to note is that it does not look like Totem bug (Although possibly) because other media players like VLC,Xine (Through xine-ui)and XMMS can have only audio but no video is played.(Same as Totem-Gstreamer, except they does not prompt user to install a "new package" that you "did not" installed.)
Surprisingly, with the correct video and audio configuration, you can play Real Video perfectly with BOTH video and audio by Mplayer. (Too bad it does not have "Repeat" option, it is too lame to press the play button every time when I want a repeat.)
It does not happen on Windows Media Video format but for AVI, then I am not too sure because through Internet without saving to disk, it does not have the problem on videos does not work but in the other bug report, Bug #108769 in totem (Ubuntu) shows that there is problem on video not working especially AVI format.
All software packages used are the latest stable version in Feisty Fawn reporistory in September 9 2007.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I noticed that this bug is milestoned to gutsy! yea! maybe we'll have this fixed!

[Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade)]

It won't harm the developers' awareness of this bug, that it (among others) is still assigned to the gutsy beta milestone, will it?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Well, I'm not sure on what it's happening...
It still does not work, but there is no debug if I launch totem...

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I think we should close this bug and open a new one. Since realvideo support has been added in 0.10.6, but there is something that prevents things to work.