floatingpoint exception when playing ogg over HTTP

[jezra]

When trying to play an ogg file over HTTP, sap prints "floating point exception" and quits.

[Hamza Bhatti (hamza.bhatti)]

a backtrace would be helpful

[jezra (jezra)]

As of Vala 7.2 or 7.3, this bug is no longer reproducible. This leads me to believe that the bug was in the Vala Gstreamer binding.

[Hamza Bhatti (hamza.bhatti)]

Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit)
Same bug is reproducible with valac 0.7.4

jezra, can you check what version of gstreamer you have? I think this is a problem with the older gstreamer plugin, not the vala bindings.

[jezra (jezra)]

My appologies for marking invalid.
Currently I have GStreamer 0.10.23

The reason I thought it was an issue with the binding is because running the command:
>gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://www.example.com/some_file.ogg
Would not give the floating point exception error.

[Hamza Bhatti (hamza.bhatti)]

Yes, that's because the duration query returns a null value for the ogg format using the http protocol, and so the process_position_duration function in main_controller.vala throws a floating point exception when it tries to calculate the percent.

Do you want me to submit a temporary patch for this?

After checking the gstreamer reference docs, I've found some ways to get the duration, bu it'll take some time for me to implement the functionality.

Please advise.

[jezra (jezra)]

if you have a temporary patch for the specific ogg issue, then by all means, please do submit it. Even if it is not a complete fix for the issue, it is better to have an app that plays audio as opposed to an app that crashes.

[Hamza Bhatti (hamza.bhatti)]

Thanks! I notice you've implemented a temporary fix in revno 28
Changing to In Progress

[Hamza Bhatti (hamza.bhatti)]

working on a more permanent fix

[jezra (jezra)]

Although I can no longer replicate the bug when using Gstreamer 0.10.23, there is a "new" issue of receiving a negative value for duration when playing an ogg over http.