Gnome-mplayer audio language selection does not work.

[Alistair Buxton]

Binary package hint: gnome-mplayer

When playing an mpeg stream with multiple audio languages, gnome-mplayer offers a menu item, "select audio language". All streams are correctly listed, but selecting one has no effect.

Use case: streams recorded by my mythtv setup often have two "english" audio tracks. Which one contains the actual program audio seems to be random, the other contains silence. In totem etc I can select the right audio track to get sound. Or I can use mplayer -aid <stream id> to make it work. eg:

Example video file: http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/aspect/audio.mpg

Stream IDs are:
video pid=6785
audio pid=6786
audio pid=6787

By default mplayer (and gnome-mplayer) will play audio pid 6787 which contains silence.
To get sound I can use: mplayer -aid 6786 audio.mpg

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 23 17:05:35 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-mplayer 0.9.8-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-020633rc6-generic x86_64

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Can you check this Kevin?
"Switch audio track" does work but selecting with "Select Audio
Language" doesn't.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Alistair Buxton <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: gnome-mplayer
>
> When playing an mpeg stream with multiple audio languages, gnome-mplayer
> offers a menu item, "select audio language". All streams are correctly
> listed, but selecting one has no effect.
>
> Use case: streams recorded by my mythtv setup often have two "english"
> audio tracks. Which one contains the actual program audio seems to be
> random, the other contains silence. In totem etc I can select the right
> audio track to get sound. Or I can use mplayer -aid <stream id> to make
> it work. eg:
>
> Example video file: http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/aspect/audio.mpg
>
> Stream IDs are:
> video pid=6785
> audio pid=6786
> audio pid=6787
>
> By default mplayer (and gnome-mplayer) will play audio pid 6787 which contains silence.
> To get sound I can use: mplayer -aid 6786 audio.mpg
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Feb 23 17:05:35 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-mplayer 0.9.8-1ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-mplayer
> Uname: Linux 2.6.33-020633rc6-generic x86_64
>
> ** Affects: gnome-mplayer (Ubuntu)
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
>
> --
> Gnome-mplayer audio language selection does not work.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526573
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[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

Works fine with 0.9.9.2

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

Retested again and both switch track and switch language work for me. I am using mplayer

MPlayer SVN-r30502-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Yeah, I was testing with 0.9.9.2, so, it looks like it is an mplayer problem.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Yes, working fine with mplayer svn snapshot from 2009/12/20 so I'd say this is fixed upstream.