totem "Could not determine type of stream"

[Claudiu Vlad]

totem doesnt play any video after upgrade to Oneiric. something was/is broken.

[Claudiu Vlad (claudiu-vlad)]

This is the output and I can reproduce it anytime in terminal:

$ totem Canadian_Bacon.avi

** (totem:5157): WARNING **: Could not create element 'gconfaudiosink'

** (totem:5157): WARNING **: Could not create element 'gconfvideosink'

(totem:5157): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "10752000" of type `guint' is invalid or out of range for property `connection-speed' of type `guint'
** Message: Error: Could not determine type of stream.
gsttypefindelement.c(996): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin21/GstTypeFindElement:typefind

$

[Carl Davis (carl.davis)]

Hello,

I am unable to replicate this using a clean install. Did you have the PPA gstreamer or other related repository enabled? You may need to clean up your PPA repositories and then reinstall necessary software.

Regards,
Carl

P.S. This thread may be helpful:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1737774

[Claudiu Vlad (claudiu-vlad)]

Hello,

Even if I had no PPA's active, I deleted all of them and reinstalled all
gstreamer related packages (using Synaptic).

Then I did

$locate gstreamer | grep claudiu

then I did this

rm -rf /home/claudiu/.gstreamer-0.10
rm -rf /home/claudiu/.gconf/system/gstreamer

Now, totem plays OK some xvid avi file, with this output:

$ totem Videos/avi/Canadian\ Bacon.avi
ERROR: Could not load classifier cascade
/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml
ERROR: Could not load classifier cascade
/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml

(totem:2736): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "10752000" of type `guint' is
invalid or out of range for property `connection-speed' of type `guint'

So this should be marked as Closed, I suppose.

Thanks for your time, Carl.

Cheers,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Carl Davis <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am unable to replicate this using a clean install. Did you have the
> PPA gstreamer or other related repository enabled? You may need to clean
> up your PPA repositories and then reinstall necessary software.
>
> Regards,
> Carl
>
> P.S. This thread may be helpful:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1737774
>
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[Carl Davis (carl.davis)]

Hi,

Thanks for getting back with us. I will mark the bug as invalid since it is working for you now after a configuration change.

Regards,
Carl

[Claudiu Vlad (claudiu-vlad)]

However,

if I'd be a developer, I would consider wiping automatically old
configurations when I don't want backward compatibility.

Cheers,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Carl Davis <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for getting back with us. I will mark the bug as invalid since it
> is working for you now after a configuration change.
>
> Regards,
> Carl
>
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> Status: New => Invalid
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