pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated

[Sam L.]

Binary package hint: totem

What I expected to happen: DVD film to play

What happened instead:
When playing a DVD as soon as the main feature starts to play (past copyright notices etc) the film immediately stops and the error: "pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated" is thrown. I have tried a number of DVDs with the same result.

[Michael Reinsch (mr-uue)]

I am experiencing this issue as well with 10.04 release, more specifically with pulseaudio version 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14. It does look like bug #417976 which is supposed to be fixed.

Sound device:

0:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
 Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0222
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
 Memory at fae78000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

[Oliv' (omeunier2000)]

Same problem for me.
İt happens when İ open a AVİ file that was perfectly working on Karmic. So now İ cannot watch my movie a second time ;-)
A few AVİ files are concerned by this bug. Most of my AVİs are still read correctly.
İf you need additional info tell me.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please also file separate bugs against alsa-driver so that we can pinpoint whether your sound driver is at fault.

[Sam L. (somethinginteres)]

How do I do that Daniel?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

somethinginteresting, "ubuntu-bug alsa-base". Please note that you should reproduce this symptom with a non-GStreamer-based DVD player, too, e.g., VLC, Kaffeine/Dragon.

[Sam L. (somethinginteres)]

VLC worked fine when I tried it so I don't think I can.

[Abdusamed Ahmed (sir508)]

VLC crashed for me... only smplayer seems to play the file when all other players die