Most formats don't seem to play - AVI/MOV/WebM/OGV, only MP4 plays

[Brendan Donegan]

In testing Mako RTM image #14 I found that the majority of formats I tried would not play in media player. These files are at: http://people.canonical.com/~brendan-donegan/test_videos/

Only MP4 plays right now - i.e. the .MP4 sample clip and the camera/ video. I'm quite certain that in the past .MOV played as well, and the other videos come from a test plan for scopes https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Process/Merges/TestPlan/localmediascopes so I imagine they worked at some point.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

since this is a regression that needs to be understood where its coming from at least; I will mark it as critical for now. Once we have identified the source, we reassess priority also in relation with Krillin impact.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Turns out MOV does play - but it doesn't show in the scope on Mako - but does in Krillin. Also it only has audio in Mako.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

this is a media-hub bug and has nothing to do with the mediaplayer-app

[Michael Frey (mfrey)]

Are you sure these all played. I just tested image #200. This is prior to the RTM split and the same results. I am not sure we have the proper gstreamer support in the image to parse all the different container formats.

The one knows format that is supported is mp4.

[Michael Frey (mfrey)]

After further investigation of the video files in question, they are not in the mpeg4 format. Only mp4 is supported in hardware for decode. So this is in fact not a bug but rather we just do not support them.

[PEIGNOT Kévin (kpeignot)]

Not a regression at all, I've the same problem since first trusty images I tested. Bug reported there in january : https://bugs.launchpad.net/media-hub/+bug/1267232. This bug seems to be a duplicate of my old one.

[Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)]

Mike's comments are accurate. All of the major container formats are supported (like .MOV, .MP4, etc...) but only h.264 and mpeg4 video codecs are supported at this time.