DVD video playback pauses after ~1s, audio continues

[Max Bowsher]

On two separate lucid installations, I find that when starting to play a DVD, the video freezes after ~1s, whilst the audio continues playing. If left like this, every 1-2 minutes or so, the video will switch to another freeze-frame further on in the film.

I'm uncertain if it's related, but very many of these errors are emitted if totem is run from a terminal:
** (totem:3870): CRITICAL **: gst_audio_buffer_clip: assertion `segment->format == GST_FORMAT_TIME || segment->format == GST_FORMAT_DEFAULT' failed

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 16 22:44:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.26-1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64

[Mark Smith (tntc-tig)]

Ditto here. same platform.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Gstreamer 0.10.27 was released a couple of days ago, I don't know if it fixes this issue or not, but it's worth trying. Can someone possibly push a ppa with 0.10.27 to test?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

0.10.27 has been uploaded to lucid

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

This is not fixed after 0.10.27 upgrade

[Rafael Monica (monraaf-deactivatedaccount)]

Same problem here. The culprit seems to be gstautoconvert.

(totem:8473): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_set_valist: object class `GstAutoConvert' has no property named `initial-identity'

The original gstautoconvert version lives in gst-plugins-bad. But it's not included in the Ubuntu deb. Instead Ubuntu seems to have moved it to gst-plugins-good in the patch: 04_move_farsight_plugins_to_good.patch

But the version in the patch is outdated and doesn't provide the 'initial-identity' property. Building gst-plugins-bad and launching totem like this:

GST_PLUGIN_PATH=gst/autoconvert/.libs totem

Fixes DVD playback for me.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

I have just uploaded some fixed gst-plugins-good packages to my testing PPA here:

https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/+archive/testing

Could you see if it solves the issue for you?

[Rafael Monica (monraaf-deactivatedaccount)]

Yep, gst-plugins-good from the PPA fixes it for me.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

monraaf, thanks for the hint about gstautoconvert! It's much appreciated.

I'll upload the updated packages today.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

gst-plugins-good0.10 (0.10.21-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04_move_farsight_plugins_to_good.patch:
    - Rebased patch on gst-plugins-bad0.10 0.10.18 to fix DVD playing
      issue (LP: #522901, LP: #522897)
  * debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch:
    - regenerated
 -- Marc Deslauriers < <email address hidden>> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:08:38 -0400