gstreamer detects HDV video and can play but causes totem / pitivi problems

[Chris Cheney]

Binary package hint: totem

In the past totem couldn't properly detect HDV video (prior to 9.10) but could play it fine if you manually installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, after installing the other codecs it recommended. Since 9.10 it appears it can properly detect HDV video but seems to have no clue the recommendations it gave were enough to play it and complains every time you try to play a file. You can then ignore the message and it will play, but it is annoying that it pops up for every file.

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8.04
Installs gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

Still does not work.

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Manual install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly allows it to play.

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9.04
"MPEG-2 Transport Stream demuxer"

Installs gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

Still does not work.

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Manual install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly allows it to play.

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9.10
"MPEG-2 Transport Stream demuxer"

Installs gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

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"MPEG-2 Video decoder"
"HDV AUX-V decoder"
"HDV AUX-A decoder"
"MPEG-1 Audio decoder"

Installs gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

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"HDV AUX-V decoder"
"HDV AUX-A decoder"

no plugins found

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If you ignore the no plugins found on 9.10 it will then play ok.

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10.04
"MPEG-2 Transport Stream demuxer"

Installs gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

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"MPEG-2 Video decoder"
"HDV AUX-V decoder"
"HDV AUX-A decoder"
"MPEG-1 Audio decoder"

Installs gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

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"HDV AUX-V decoder"
"HDV AUX-A decoder"

no plugins found

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If you ignore the no plugins found on 10.04 it will then play ok, but seems a bit crashy.

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: totem 2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 2 17:33:16 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100128)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This was originally reported on ubuntuforums at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1464903

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I just tested under PiTiVi like the original report on ubuntuforums and you actually can't work around the warning in it. It won't let you play in it.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I wonder if the reason it works in Totem but not in PiTiVi is that PiTiVi may not attempt to just play anyway after you can cancel the additional search for codecs which it doesn't need while Totem may attempt to play regardless.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

14:49 < bilboed> yes, because those are private streams, not actual video
                 streams
14:49 < bilboed> those streams do *not* contain video (they contain metadata)
14:50 < bilboed> there are elements to read the metadata, but that's besides
                 the point
14:51 < bilboed> basically : not much can be done right now

[thom (tsk)]

Expired ?
A bit of a shameful move to expire this bug because the problem still exists (ubuntu 12.04 LTS) and will continue to exist until fixed or until end-of-life of 12.04 (i.e. 2017)