banshee suddenly closes when I try to play a video

[zsolt.ruszinyák]

Binary package hint: banshee

It happens for all kinds of video. I was using banshee with the same computer in Ubuntu 9.04 and everything was ok. Now, in Ubuntu 9.10, I was trying to play the same files, that I played there without problems. Totem works correctly. I think it might be the system, cause some things for video playback got a bit buggy with 9.10, f.e. the mplayer browser plugin really sucks... Something has gone wrong...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 6 21:56:43 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/mono
Package: banshee 1.5.1-1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-18.55-generic
SourcePackage: banshee
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic i686

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Could you try running `banshee --debug' in a terminal, playing a video in
Banshee, then posting the output here? Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[zsolt.ruszinyák (zsolt-ruszinyak)]

Here's the output. For the first time I did it, it interstingly played the video, but then the same problem again. So this is the output for when it crashed.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Here's a fun trick - can you run “GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=yes banshee --debug” from a terminal and see if videos still crash? I suspect that this is an artefact of GTK client-side-windows, which is new in Karmic I think.

[zsolt.ruszinyák (zsolt-ruszinyak)]

Yes, it can play videos this time. Could tou tell me how to run the program always in this mode, without opening terminal all the time?

 Just a little remark, the area where the video was played was misplaced, as you can see on my screenshot. When I switched to fullsecreen and then back to normal view, the area was already on the right place. Thanks

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

This will be fixed when Banshee 1.5.4 lands in Lucid; this issue is fixed upstream.

[Twisted Lucidity (lucidlytwisted)]

I think I am seeing the same thing with Banshee 1.5.5 in Ubuntu 9.10 when trying to play videos from the Internet Archive.
I tried "GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=yes banshee --debug" but it still crashed.
Output is attached

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

According to upstream comments this issue is solved, please can you check if this behaviour is still affecting you under latest release of banshee included in Ubuntu Lucid? Thanks!