RealAudio file no longer plays

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Description of the problem:
Back in Ubuntu 8.04 gstreamer was able to play a particular RealAudio file but with 9.10 this file seems to just hang.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Run
wget http://wso.williams.edu/~aeatonsa/bomb/audio/real/Track13.ra
gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=Track14.ra ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! pulsesink
.

Expected results:
Remixed version of the classic Bomberman battle music scale to be played.

Actual results:
The following is printed:
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstPulseSinkClock

but no music is produced.

Additional information:
The file plays in the gstreamer bundled with Ubuntu 8.04.

Version Information:
gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.25-2ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.9-1
gstreamer0.10-nice 0.0.9-2
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.14-4ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.25-2ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.25-2ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.16-1ubuntu3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.12-1
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.16-1ubuntu3
gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.25-2
gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.25-2ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This is apparently fixed by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-ugly/commit/?id=3784de031dd4c6eaa3af94cf16c83e48df780264 . I hope this patch makes it into Ubuntu 9.10 but given the timing I suspect this is unlikely.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the change is late for karmic but could be sru-ed later

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This issue no longer occurs in:
Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.14-1

Marking as Fix Released.