Vorbis stream not seekable in Totem

[Jani Uusitalo]

After recent changes in Jamendo's streaming service, it's no longer possible to seek forward nor backward in playing time of their Vorbis streams using Totem. VLC however lets me seek just as before. Also, seeking does work if I opt the stream as MP3.

My main desktop is an up-to-date Lucid, and I've also reproduced this in a virtual Maverick.

Set up: have Jamendo stream using external player, with Vorbis+m3u or Vorbis+xspf. Associate said playlist format with Totem. Start streaming, try to skip time within the playing track.

I've found an upstream bug which seems related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629212#. I didn't link it straight away because I'm not sure if it's the exact same one as this.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Jani Uusitalo (uusijani)]

I gave it a spin in Natty and yes, the issue is still there. Also, the upstream bug I mentioned seems to be the right one for this, as the discussion there also involves Jamendo's Ogg streams. I'll update this one accordingly.