Comment 5 for bug 340649

Sebastien:

Thanks for following up!

> do you still get the issue on jaunty? to be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org
> to the people writing the software by somebody having the issue
>
> ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => New

I upgraded to 9.04 -- the behavior is unchanged. All system elements,
including the gstreamer components, are the latest and greatest
according to Synaptic. I also installed ffmpeg, but that didn't change
anything.

When Rhythmbox is invoked locally on the media server (now upgraded to
9.04), it plays all the formats that are of interest to me: ogg, m3u and
pls. When invoked remotely via X11 through an ssh tunnel, it plays only
ogg files. When I try to play an m3u stream, it complains:

Couldn't start playback
A text/uri-list decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but not
installed.

When I try to play a pls stream, it complains:

Couldn't start playback
Could not determine type of stream.

But ogg files play perfectly when invoked remotely! And all file types
play perfectly well when Rhythmbox is run locally on the 9.04 media
server!

What I want to do is run Rhythmbox on this small media server, but have
its interface displayed via X11 through the ssh tunnel on a remote
screen on my big Ubuntu system. The media server will be hooked up via
audio cables to my stereo system, so I am not trying to do anything
tricky like run the audio back via ssh to another system.

This should work, but it does not under 8.10 or 9.04. Oddly enough, it
seemed to work with the media server running 8.04. Weird, huh?

Jim McCauley
Fort Collins CO