Totem-mozilla can't play media player streaming (asx)

[Gabriele Monti]

Binary package hint: totem-mozilla

When opening this link:

http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/streamHome.srv?id=42624&idCnt=79046&path=RaiClickWeb^Home

totem-mozilla does nothing, an embedded player appears but no streaming.
This is the ouput:
If the same link is opened without any plugin it is possible to see the direct link which is:

http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/asx?id=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb^Home&var=1225056142875

and which is correctly opened if passed to totem.
It looks like the problem is when resolving the URI, the plug-in resolves it to:

http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/asx%3Fid=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb%5EHome&var=1225056142875

Please note the %3F instead of ? and %5E instead of ^. In fact by passing the latter URI to totem this error is returned:
Impossibile aprire la posizione; controllare di avere i permessi necessari per aprire il file (the italian for: Impossible to open the location, bla bla)

** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: totemPlugin [0x9e94d20]
** Message: Init mimetype 'application/x-mplayer2' mode 1
** Message: GetScriptableNPObject [0x9e94d20]
** Message: totemGMPPlayer [0xa0cfe98]
** Message: Base URI is 'http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/streamHome.srv?id=42624&idCnt=79046&path=RaiClickWeb^Home'
** Message: Real mimetype for 'application/x-mplayer2' is 'video/x-msvideo'
argv[0] type application/x-mplayer2
argv[1] pluginspage http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaPlayer/
argv[2] name rckvideo
argv[3] filename /raiclickpc/asx?id=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb^Home&var=1225056142875
argv[4] showcontrols 1
argv[5] animationatstart true
argv[6] autostart true
argv[7] showstatusbar true
argv[8] showdisplay true
argv[9] bgcolor #000000
argv[10] enablecontextmenu false
argv[11] width 352
argv[12] height 352
** Message: mSrcURI:
** Message: mCache: 0
** Message: mControllerHidden: 0
** Message: mShowStatusbar: 1
** Message: mHidden: 0
** Message: mAudioOnly: 0
** Message: mAutoPlay: 1, mRepeat: 0
** Message: Launching: /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/totem-plugin-viewer --plugin-type gmp --user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3 --mimetype video/x-msvideo --statusbar
** Message: Viewer spawned, PID 20725
** Message: Initial window set, XID 460065b size 352x352
** Message: No viewer proxy yet, deferring SetWindow
** Message: GetScriptableNPObject [0x9e94d20]
** Message: Viewer DBus interface name is 'org.gnome.totem.PluginViewer_20725'
** Message: NameOwnerChanged old-owner '' new-owner ':1.217'
** Message: Viewer now connected to the bus
** Message: ViewerSetup
** Message: Calling SetWindow
Viewer: SetWindow XID 73401947 size 352:352
TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: STOPPED
** Message: SetWindow reply
** Message: ViewerReady
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_open_uri: uri /raiclickpc/asx?id=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb^Home&var=1225056142875 base_uri: http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/streamHome.srv?id=42624&idCnt=79046&path=RaiClickWeb^Home
totem_embedded_set_uri uri (null) base (null) => resolved (null)
totem_embedded_set_uri uri /raiclickpc/asx?id=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb^Home&var=1225056142875 base http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/streamHome.srv?id=42624&idCnt=79046&path=RaiClickWeb^Home => resolved http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/asx%3Fid=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb%5EHome&var=1225056142875
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_open_internal 'http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/asx%3Fid=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb%5EHome&var=1225056142875' is-browser-stream 0 start-play 1
TotemEmbedded-Message: BEFORE _open
TotemEmbedded-Message: AFTER _open (ret: 1)
TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: PLAYING
** Message: OpenURI reply
** Message: Command 'Play'
** Message: Error: "http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/asx%3Fid=42624&caller=home&pagina=null&path=RaiClickWeb%5EHome&var=1225056142875": Not Found
gstsouphttpsrc.c(916): gst_soup_http_src_parse_status (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstSoupHTTPSrc:source:
404 Not Found

TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: STOPPED
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_set_error: 'Impossibile aprire la posizione; controllare di avere i permessi necessari per aprire il file.'
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_set_error_logo called by browser plugin
** Message: don't know how to handle text/html

[gaganian (nikosgrigo)]

I also confirm this issue!

[Robert Rittenhouse (rrittenhouse)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu 8.10 64bit. I ran firefox from a terminal and the output was saying that it was a 404 and the file could not be found! Firefox wouldn't even browse to it with a %3F but it works fine with a ? mark. I used www.whiznews.com to test this. Click on an article that has video and click "Watch Video" on the next page.

I am going to take a look at the source code to see if this indeed a totem issue but some assistance would be helpful from a more experienced developer.

Thank you for reporting this bug.

~Robert Rittenhouse

[JeppeM (jeppe-mariager)]

I have the same issue with a Danish net radio...

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** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: totemPlugin [0xed5f00]
** Message: Init mimetype 'application/x-mplayer2' mode 1
** Message: GetScriptableNPObject [0xed5f00]
** Message: totemGMPPlayer [0x1eee440]
** Message: Base URI is 'http://radio100fm.dk/netradio'
** Message: Real mimetype for 'application/x-mplayer2' is 'video/x-msvideo'
argv[0] type application/x-mplayer2
argv[1] pluginspage http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/
argv[2] src /netradio/asx
argv[3] name MediaPlayer
argv[4] animationatstart 0
argv[5] autostart 1
argv[6] transparentatstart 0
argv[7] showstatusbar 1
argv[8] showcontrols 1
argv[9] autosize 0
argv[10] displaysize 0
** Message: mSrcURI: /netradio/asx
** Message: mCache: 0
** Message: mControllerHidden: 0
** Message: mShowStatusbar: 1
** Message: mHidden: 0
** Message: mAudioOnly: 0
** Message: mAutoPlay: 1, mRepeat: 0
** Message: Launching: /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/totem-plugin-viewer --plugin-type gmp --user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3 --mimetype video/x-msvideo --statusbar
** Message: Viewer spawned, PID 10267
** Message: Initial window set, XID 2c03912 size 204x45
** Message: No viewer proxy yet, deferring SetWindow
** Message: GetScriptableNPObject [0xed5f00]
** Message: NewStream mimetype 'video/x-ms-asf' URL 'http://radio100fm.dk/netradio/asx'
** Message: Not expecting a new stream; aborting stream
** Message: Viewer DBus interface name is 'org.gnome.totem.PluginViewer_10267'
** Message: NameOwnerChanged old-owner '' new-owner ':1.189'
** Message: Viewer now connected to the bus
** Message: ViewerSetup
** Message: Calling SetWindow
Viewer: SetWindow XID 46151954 size 204:45
TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: STOPPED
** Message: SetWindow reply
** Message: ViewerReady
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_open_uri: uri /netradio/asx base_uri: http://radio100fm.dk/netradio
totem_embedded_set_uri uri (null) base (null) => resolved (null)
totem_embedded_set_uri uri /netradio/asx base http://radio100fm.dk/netradio => resolved http://radio100fm.dk/netradio/asx
TotemEmbedded-Message: totem_embedded_open_internal 'http://radio100fm.dk/netradio/asx' is-browser-stream 0 start-play 1
TotemEmbedded-Message: BEFORE _open
TotemEmbedded-Message: AFTER _open (ret: 1)
TotemEmbedded-Message: Viewer state: PLAYING
** Message: OpenURI reply
** Message: Command 'Play'
** Message: Error: You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins.
gstplaybasebin.c(2307): prepare_output (): /GstPlayBin:play

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could somebody experiencing the issue send this upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; thanks you.