[intrepid beta] totem doesn't load playlists

[David Dean]

Binary package hint: totem

When I try to open a text .m3u playlist file with totem, it complains that it cannot open the playlist with the message: "GstDecodeBin: This appears to be a text file". The following messages are also output to the console:

** Message: Error: This appears to be a text file
gstdecodebin.c(1657): type_found (): /play/decodebin3:
decodebin cannot decode plain text files

The particular playlist was just a one-file-per-line playlist I generated using shell scripts:

--david@olivaw--------------------------------------------------14:05:45--
[~]$ listpodcasts.sh ~/docs/podcasts | grep -iv mp3 | cut -d' ' -f4 > /tmp/playlist.m3u
--david@olivaw--------------------------------------------------14:05:47--
[~]$ cat /tmp/playlist.m3u
/home/david/docs/podcasts/Best_Of...__Large_Quicktime_/bestof--0155--popsiren-0028--large.h264.mp4
/home/david/docs/podcasts/Best_Of...__Large_Quicktime_/bestof--0158--systm-0071--large.h264.mp4
/home/david/docs/podcasts/Best_Of...__Large_Quicktime_/bestof--0161--diggreel-0038--large.h264.mp4
--david@olivaw--------------------------------------------------14:05:50--
[~]$ totem /tmp/playlist.m3u
** Message: Error: This appears to be a text file
gstdecodebin.c(1657): type_found (): /play/decodebin0:
decodebin cannot decode plain text files

I also get the same error if I try and open the playlist file from the menus, rather than passing it on the command line like above.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/mingw32ce/bin:/usr/local/netpbm/bin
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.