totem fails to render video properly after playing audio file.

[Rahul Ghose]

Binary package hint: totem

Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

totem:
  Installed: 2.28.2-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.28.2-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.2-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ubuntuarchive.hnsdc.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.28.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ubuntuarchive.hnsdc.com karmic/main Packages

What happens: Totem fails to render video after playing any audio file. However, when totem is resized or any menu item is selected or is full-screen the video is rendered.

Restarting totem with a video will play the video flawlessly. But if any audio is played before the video, the problem reappears.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 10 14:25:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: totem 2.28.2-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1658): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1722): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1691): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1690): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window
 (nautilus:1887): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that works fine here, which video driver are you using? are you running compiz ? does it happen if you disable it and try again? which kind of file (avi, mpeg, mov, etc) ?

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

My driver is i845

Nope, no compiz here.

All video files (the ones I've used are ogv, avi and mpeg ones).

and the problem arises only when the visualisation is disabled. Works fine if visualisation is enabled.

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

Same prpblem with banshee media player, the video is very buggy.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

looks like a video issue then, do you get the same if playing the file with : gst-launch playbin uri=file:///path/to/file ?

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

no... video plays flawlessly I tried that too... like I said, it happens only after I play an audio and in totem when the visualisation is disabled.

I said this too:
Restarting totem with a video will play the video flawlessly. But if any audio is played before the video, the problem reappears.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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!