Totem does not correctly handle aspect ratio changes in mpeg streams

[Alistair Buxton]

When streaming videos recorded with mythtv using mythweb, totem does not correctly handle aspect ratio changes. This happens quite often if the adverts etc are in widescreen but the actual shows are broadcast in 4:3. Whatever aspect ratio the clip starts off in is retained throughout the whole of playback. This means it is usually wrong since mythtv will start recording early, during the adverts. If necessary I can supply video clips for testing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 10 21:02:48 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-020633rc6-generic x86_64

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Example video files are at: http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/aspect/

original.asx - the asx file served by mythtv
test.mpg - head -c 5000000 of the mpeg file downloaded from mythtv
test.asx - asx file modified to play test.mpg

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

This bug is still present in lucid

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

I'm not sure why i reported this against gstreamer. Maybe that's why it never got looked at? Changing to totem.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

This bug is no longer present in Maverick.

[Jan Claeys (janc)]

Alistair: I closed this bug as I understand it's fixed now (I also tested with your example), feel free to re-open if I'm wrong...