Totem does not play WMV from click and drag

[Shunsuke Akagi]

Binary package hint: totem

Totem does not show video when I click and drag single WMV into totem.
If I choose multiple WMV or other video files then go back to the first WMV that was not seen can be seen probably.
When I double-click the WMV file, it would work fine.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Shunsuke Akagi (shoon)]

>1. Is this reproducible?
Yes, in a way.

>2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
You just need to click and drag a folder or folder into totem over and
over then it will happen. I do not know when or how many times or
conditions but it happens to me everyday and I have to reset every day.
It happens all the sudden.
I cannot avoid. If you can teach me how to kill it when it happens, I
would appreciate it. I tried ctrl+C or whatever everything I can think
of but only ctl+alt+delete would work but this is not good because I
cannot save any jobs.
I hope you can reproduce and raise the importance then someone will fix
it ASAP. This is a very serious problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>
Reply-to: Bug 660225 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 660225] Re: Totem does not play WMV from click and drag
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:53:22 -0000

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

[TH (thaugseth)]

I can confirm this problem.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Play a video (format doesn't matter)
2) Drag a *.wmv-file from nautilus and drop it onto the area where the other video is shown

Expected result:
Totem should play the file you just dropped

Actual result:
Totem plays the sound from the new file, but not the video.
The Play-button is disabled, but if you hit Next, the video will play as normal (since in this case the playlist only contains one video)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Shunsuke Akagi (shoon)]

This problem has not been solved yet.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

could you please provide a sample .wmv

[Shunsuke Akagi (shoon)]

It is not limited to a specific file. It can happen to any WMV file possibly even AVI file.
If you drug any WMV file and drop into TOTEM, it would happen.
Another case is that when you drug a folder that contains WMV file and drop into TOTEM, Totem would not play either.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

totem 2.32 in Ubuntu 10.10 works fine with drag and drop here

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Shunsuke Akagi
<email address hidden>wrote:

> It is not limited to a specific file. It can happen to any WMV file
> possibly even AVI file.
> If you drug any WMV file and drop into TOTEM, it would happen.
> Another case is that when you drug a folder that contains WMV file and drop
> into TOTEM, Totem would not play either.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660225
>
> Title:
> Totem does not play WMV from click and drag
>
> Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: totem
>
> Totem does not show video when I click and drag single WMV into totem.
> If I choose multiple WMV or other video files then go back to the first WMV
> that was not seen can be seen probably.
> When I double-click the WMV file, it would work fine.
>
>
>

[Shunsuke Akagi (shoon)]

I have the same version.
It won't happen every time. It occasionally happens. When you play a movie, do you double-click and play?
If you do, please drug and drop a folder, folders, a file or files to play every time when you play. It will happen.
You may find even worse problem, which is freezing problem.

[TH (thaugseth)]

Omer:
Try to download the wmv file from here (it's a random wmv-file I found via Google):
http://www.archive.org/details/WorkToFishtestwmv
Direct link: http://www.archive.org/download/WorkToFishtestwmv/test_wmv.wmv

Then follow the steps I provided in comment #3.

[Shunsuke Akagi (shoon)]

I forgot to tell one important thing. I have dual monitors. The main monitor is on top of the secondary monitor.
When I click and drug into Totem on the secondary screen, picture shows briefly at the main screen then disappears and no pictures at all on the secondary screen. This may be the reason why many people may not recognized this issue. It may not happen with single screen.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Shunsuke Akagi (shoon)]

Thank you for trying to take care of this issue. I have greater problem since I updated to 11.04.
After I switch with ctrl+alt+F1 then kill the nautilus. it usually come back but it sometimes reset by itself.
This problem is originally created by Totem but should I report it as a nautilus bug.

Anyway I will check the development release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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