totem refuses to play certain wmv files

[Egon Kocjan]

Totem opens the video, recognizes the correct video length, but the playback won't start.

Example videos are here:
http://www.langnetsymposium.com/talks.asp

The problem can be seen with this one for example:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/e/5/ce5434ca-4f54-42b1-81ea-7f5a72f3b1dd/1-01%20-%20CSharp3%20-%20Anders%20Hejlsberg.wmv

The videos play without any problems with VLC. Also, some other wmv files work fine in totem, like this one:
http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/mix08/08_WMVs/UX09.wmv

system: updated hardy,
ii totem 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 A simple media player for the Gnome desktop
ii totem-common 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 Data files for the Totem media player
ii totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 A simple media player for the Gnome desktop
ii totem-mozilla 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 Totem Mozilla plugin
ii totem-plugins 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 Plugins for the Totem media player

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Does gst-launch playbin uri=file:///example/directory/video works correctly? The wmv format is a microsoft one and the linux plugins might not read everything correctly

[Egon Kocjan (egon-kocjan)]

No, this is what I get:

$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/user/Desktop/talks/1-01\ -\ CSharp3\ -\ Anders\ Hejlsberg.wmv
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
*** hangs here, I pressed ctrl+c ***
Caught interrupt -- handling interrupt.
Interrupt: Stopping pipeline ...
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

I also tried with UX09.wmv and it works:

$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/user/Desktop/talks/UX09.wmv
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstAudioSinkClock
ERROR: from element /playbin0/vbin/videosink/videosink-actual-sink-xvimage: Output window was closed
Additional debug info:
xvimagesink.c(1223): gst_xvimagesink_handle_xevents (): /playbin0/vbin/videosink/videosink-actual-sink-xvimage
Execution ended after 4664961400 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thsi works fine for me, is this still an issue with intrepid for you?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.