.asx stream freezes a first frame, continues to download

[John Pye]

Binary package hint: totem

This stream causes problems with the Totem plugin on Hardy:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/broadband/catalyst/asx/Catalyst16_vortex_hi.asx

Totem renders the first frame of the steam OK, and there continues to be data downloaded via the network, but no further rendering takes place. I couldn't be sure whether or not this was the same bug as others have reported, so reporting as new.

Cheers
JP

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks fory our report, that works fine here, which version of totem and Ubuntu are you running?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

This was with a fully up-to-date installation of Ubuntu Hardy as of the date of the bug report.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

This bug is still present. Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu Hardy.

john@roadwork:~$ dpkg -l "*totem*" "*gstreamer*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.18-3 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
un gstreamer0.10-audiosink <none> (no description available)
un gstreamer0.10-colorspace <none> (no description available)
un gstreamer0.10-esd <none> (no description available)
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.3-6 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
un gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 <none> (no description available)
ii gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.18-3 GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
un gstreamer0.10-lame <none> (no description available)
un gstreamer0.10-plugins <none> (no description available)
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.6-5 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse 0.10.6-1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set (Multiverse Variant)
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.18-3 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.18-3 GStreamer helper programs from the "base" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.7-3ubuntu0.1 GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
un gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-doc <none> (no description available)
un gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad <none> (no description available)
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.7-3ubuntu1 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse 0.10.7-1 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set (Multiverse Variant)
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.9.7-2 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.18-4ubuntu1 Tools for use with GStreamer
un gstreamer0.10-videosink <none> (no description available)
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.18-3 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.18-3 ...

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

change status back to new again.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Intrepid Ibex. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

In Ubuntu 9.04 these streams fail, see also bug #321476

* http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5780054/test.asx The windows just says "stopped". 'Open with Movie Player' reports 'buffering' and then 'playing' but nothing happens.
* http://www.abc.net.au/science/broadband/catalyst/asx/Catalyst16_vortex_hi.asx The windows just says "stopped". 'Open with Movie Player' reports 'buffering' and then 'playing' but nothing happens.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Using cli and mplayer I can download the file at http://www.radionz.co.nz/__data/assets/audio_item/0008/1699424/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-m048.asx which then plays fine.

$ mplayer -playlist url -dumpfile out.mpg -dumpstream