fails to play mp3s from a samba share using gio

[John Leach]

I'm running the following command to play an mp3 file over a samba share:

gst-launch-0.10 -v playbin2 uri="smb://lion/music/Music/Therapy/Therapy - Nurse/Teethgrinder.mp3"

it starts to play, but after about 1 second the audio goes silent, but the command doesn't finish. Playing the same file in rhythmbox does the same thing and the progress indicator keeps moving, suggesting playing but is just silent.

If play the same file from the same server but via ssh or sftp, it plays fine:

gst-launch-0.10 -v playbin2 uri="ssh://lion/media/music/Music/Therapy/Therapy - Nurse/Teethgrinder.mp3"

If I manually build a chain of sinks using giosrc directly, rather than using playbin2, it plays ok:

gst-launch-0.10 giosrc location="smb://lion/music/Music/Therapy/Therapy - Nurse/Teethgrinder.mp3" ! flump3dec ! autoaudiosink

If I play a flac file from the same server (using playbin2 again), it also plays fine (yes, you heard right, hehe!):

gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri="smb://lion/music/Music/Admiral Fallow/Boots Met My Face/Admiral Fallow - Boots Met My Face - 01 Dead Against Smoking.flac"

I've attached logs with GST_DEBUG=*:5 for all the above commands. They all succeed except mp3 over smb.

I'm using gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.36-1 on Precise.

This started out as bug #977866 reported against rhythmbox, but I've found that it's a gstreamer (or gvfs?) problem, so am resubmitting here with a clearer report.

[John Leach (johnleach)]

Tested using packages from the gstreamer dev ppa (gstreamer1.0 / 0.11.92) https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa and the same problem:

gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri="smb://lion/music/Music/Therapy/Therapy - Nurse/Teethgrinder.mp3"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jimmy Boyer (nurling)]

Having same playback issue. I have found that it is only through a wireless connection. A wired connection works without problems at all.

[John Leach (johnleach)]

Still broken in Quantal (it's worse now too, because Totem won't play them now either and that was my fallback method of playing music from a samba share).

[Catalin Patulea (cpatulea)]

I tried switching from gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 to gstreamer0.10-fluendo-ugly (mp3 decoder is libmad), same problem. Does not seem related to the codec.