totally unwatchable stuttering video and no audio while trying to play .mpg file.

[unixnewbie]

Binary package hint: totem

totem source package: 2.22.1-0ubuntu3 per this website: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04

totem:
  Installed: 2.22.1-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.22.1-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.22.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

i expected totem to be able to play the .mpg file.

instead it stutters through the file and there is no sound.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 17 12:19:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

[Montel Edwards (montel)]

Need to specify graphic card.

[unixnewbie (darfsten)]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Unknown device 2144
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 248 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
 Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 2: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at f7ce0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
  Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=3 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8
  Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you get the issue on any mpg or only a specific one? does gst-launch playbin uri=... plays it with the same issue?

[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!.