does not play Experience ubuntu on fresh dvd install

[Michael Vogt]

Binary package hint: totem

The ogg file from example contents is not played on a fresh dvd install for me>

$ md5sum Experience\ ubuntu.ogg
4e85a02428e52ba8bde22e65cc3702b3 Experience ubuntu.ogg

$ totem --debug Experience\ ubuntu.ogg
** Message: Error: Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument
pulsesink.c(411): gst_pulsesink_prepare (): /play/abin/audiosinkbin/audio-sink/bin6/autoaudiosink1/autoaudiosink1-actual-sink-pulse

(totem:5463): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

(totem:5463): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

(totem:5463): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

The error dialog says:
"""
An error occurred
Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument
"""

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is probably a gstreamer issue, I get the same error for .spx and ogg audio.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

It is quite likely that this is some sort of artifact form running under kvm, I do not have working sound there, it may caused by this.

[patmalcolm91 (patmalcolm91)]

I also get this same error when playing mp3 and wmv (didn't test any others). It started after updating my system today.

[eris23 (jdkatz23)]

I have the same problem with avi.

[ubuntu_demon (ubuntu-demon)]

I have a similar issue running Ubuntu Hardy from live cd. The audio plays but the video doesn't play. "totem --debug Experience\ ubuntu.ogg" doesn't display any error messages. So I'm confirming this bug.

I have reproduced the same result with :
live session from : Ubuntu Hardy release candidate
live session from : Ubuntu hardy daily image from 20-Apr-2008 08:16

[to be removed (liw)]

I get the same problem when testing the final release candidate of ubuntu hardy desktop i386 under kvm. The problem goes away if I use the GNOME sound settings to configure sound playback to use "ALSA" instead of "Automatic" (which translates to PulseAudio).

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

Would be nice if someone could get a backtrace for these assertions, just install all the relevant debug packages (glib, gstreamer, ...) and call gdb with G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings

[David Rahrer (david-rahrer)]

FWIW I just fixed a problem which sounds related (I also had very slow, choppy video playback in totem/gstreamer along with these same errors) using the totem instructions here:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

I used gstreamer-properties to make the changes, but they show how to do it through gconf, too. Might be worth a try for some here.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the message is similar to bug #191027, does changing the audiosink to alsa workaround the issue?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

rather bug #200644