Totem Movie Player 2.22.1 will no longer play a .wmv file

[Ray Parrish]

Binary package hint: totem

I tried to play an .wmv file that I had previously played in Totem Movie Player 2.22.1, but got "An error has occurred" "Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument" when I tried. It does show the first frame of the video before the error occurs. This same file plays just fine in Real Player.

This error appears to occur for all .wmv files now, and I just tested an .mpeg and got the same error.

Now I have also tried MPlayer 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13+medibuntu1 and got the error "AO: [pulse] Failed to connect to server: Invalid argument" but the video plays even as the error dialog is on screen.

gnome-mplayer 0.6.0 plays the video just fine.

My OS version -

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 7 03:56:08 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic i686

[Ray Parrish (crp-cmc)]

Hello again,

I have re-booted into the next kernel back from the one above, and when in this kernel, the .wmv files play just fine.

The problem only just started about one and a half days ago when I last ran updates after being notified there were some to download. Whatever was in that update broke mplayer, and totem.

Here in a bit I will re-boot to the new kernel, and look up what the updates were, and report them here. Never mind, I just looked it up in Synaptic's History, and here are the files which were updated.

Upgraded the following packages:
libnm-glib0 (0.6.6-0ubuntu5) to 0.6.6-0ubuntu5.8.04.1
libnm-util0 (0.6.6-0ubuntu5) to 0.6.6-0ubuntu5.8.04.1
network-manager (0.6.6-0ubuntu5) to 0.6.6-0ubuntu5.8.04.1
xserver-xorg-video-amd (2.9.0-1ubuntu2.4) to 2.9.0-1ubuntu2.5
xserver-xorg-video-geode (2.9.0-1ubuntu2.4) to 2.9.0-1ubuntu2.5
xterm (229-1ubuntu1) to 229-1ubuntu1.1

I suspect the video updates, as although I have an AMD 3400+ cpu, I have an onboard Nvidia video card so I wasn't even sure I should be using those updates.

I am also attaching output from my message log file which shows errors with pulseaudio -

Jan 7 00:19:35 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 00:23:13 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 00:42:54 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 00:51:11 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 01:06:32 ray-desktop -- MARK --
Jan 7 01:26:32 ray-desktop -- MARK --
Jan 7 01:37:45 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 02:00:34 ray-desktop kernel: [124429.268935] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
Jan 7 02:00:34 ray-desktop kernel: [124429.269136] NET: Registered protocol family 31
Jan 7 02:00:34 ray-desktop kernel: [124429.269140] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Jan 7 02:00:34 ray-desktop kernel: [124429.269146] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Jan 7 02:26:32 ray-desktop -- MARK --
Jan 7 02:27:25 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 02:38:52 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 02:47:59 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 02:52:06 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 02:52:19 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 03:30:12 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Jan 7 03:30:42 ray-desktop last message repeated 2 times
Jan 7 03:31:43 ray-desktop last message repeated 2 times
Jan 7 03:32:56 ray-desktop last message repeated 3 times
Jan 7 03:46:32 ray-desktop -- MARK --
Jan 7 03:48:49 ray-desktop pulseaudio[6353]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many in...

[Ray Parrish (crp-cmc)]

Hello again,

Now that I look at the message log a little closer I realize that I have actually had two boots into the newest kernel since the errors above, which did not exhibit the errors shown above either.

One of those boots resulted in a different problem I have been having with the newest kernel, and that is the menus will not drop down out of hiding so they can be used. I have reported that in a separate bug report here as well, as it has been happening about once every five boots.

Later, Ray Parrish