Playing of mms radio streams fails with gstreamer based player due to failure to buffer

[Doug McMahon]

Currently all gstreamer based player will fail on mms/mmsh internet radio streams because of a hang in buffering the stream. In most cases the codec is wma2 which is supported thru the various plugins.

In 12.04 Alpha this worked fine, just tested from live session

Test Case:
install the gst ffmpeg; bad & ugly plugins to cover all bases
Attempt to play a mms or mmsh stream in any gstreamer based media player, Totem, Banshee, Ryhthmbox, Clementine, ect.
All will hang on the buffering

A bbc radio address is attached as a .m3u for convenience, mms/wma2
The .m3u can be opened directly in Totem
For ryhthmbox you can r. click on > open in RB, will then be available under radio tab > unknown. All other players the radio station can be added by copying the url from the .m3u, open it in a text editor to retrieve

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.35.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.17-generic-pae 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 21 12:35:37 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120108)
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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