Playing .ogv videos fails: An error occurred pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated

[zsolt.ruszinyák]

I was trying to play .ogv videos created in Pitivi with the default settings for the container and the audio and video tracks too.

Totem: Sometimes it plays the file, sometimes not.
Banshee: Some files are being played correctly, other ones without any sound
Gnome Mplayer: The view is always distorted, just a grey something appears, in some tracks the sound is ok, in other tracks a bit distorted.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.28-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 13 14:50:25 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1783): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nm-applet:1775): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
 (Do:1792): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.
 (gnome-gmail-notifier:1758): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_file_chooser_select_filename: assertion `filename != NULL' failed

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

Thank you for helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please upload an example file that does not work so we can reproduce this issue?

[zsolt.ruszinyák (zsolt-ruszinyak)]

Yeah, sorry, that only occurred to me later.. So here's one. Recently, this one never works. But it used to work before.

So, again, this was an mp3 file joined with an image downloaded from the web & put together into an .ogv using PITIVI...

I forgot to mention that a reboot many times solves the problem in Totem (temporarily) and VLC plays this video correctly. Thanks!

Should I mark PITIVI as affected as well?

[zsolt.ruszinyák (zsolt-ruszinyak)]

I don't think this bug is duplicate of bug #496616, I'm starting to think, the culprit is PITIVI. Other .ogv's are not affected, just the one I uploaded. Other .ogv's start misbehaving only if this one is played first. I'm going to create the file again, We'll see what it does. However, it's still true that that Gnome Mplayer doesn't play the view in .ogv's correctly, but that might be a different problem.