GstDecodeBin2: This appears to be a text file

[Kristoffer Lundén]

Binary package hint: totem

I often play music albums by opening the directory they are in in Totem, I even have that set as an open-with action. Yes, there is Rhythmbox, but I do play albums this way over SSH from servers etc, as well as I like this way of playing music now. :)

If there is an unknown text file in the same directory, it gets added to the playlist anyway, AND totem will stop playback on this file with the error "GstDecodeBin2: This appears to be a text file". Highly annoying when you have to get up and go to the computer just to click the warning away and delete this entry from the playlist manually.

Images, for instance, gets ignored and are not added in this way.

I propose that either:

1. Unknown text files should not be added to the playlist, or, if that's hard to do:
2. Such files should just be silently skipped when playing

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ aptitude show totem
Package: totem
Version: 2.30.2-0ubuntu1

[Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden)]

Maybe it's obvious, but for sake of completeness I should also mention that it's the exact same problem when watching videos, say a series or a movie split up on several parts, if there is a text file in the directory.

[Jan Claeys (janc)]

It probably thinks those text files are subtitles but then checks/handles them incorrectly...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden)]

> It probably thinks those text files are subtitles but then checks/handles them incorrectly...

Possibly, but it shouldn't read subtitles at all without already running a media file, but rather just skip them. :)

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Can you update about this bug ?
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for totem (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]