Totem often returns: "internal data flow error" movies play good with VLC

[Boris Strajnar]

Binary package hint: totem

Same or similar as bug #39164. I have Ubuntu 7.04. and all codecs installed, and have almost 100% found the exact trigger. Lets us say we have files High_noon.avi and High_noon.srt that is the movie and it's subtitles. When open it will crash with "internal data flow error". If you remove High_noon.srt the movie will play perfect BUT off course without subtitles. Its the titles!!!!!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 30 22:13:54 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.18.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem file:///home/strajnar/Desktop/Who%20Killed%20The%20Electric%20Car......by%20cocky/Who%20Killed%20The%20Electric%20Car.avi
ProcCwd: /home/strajnar
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux strajnar-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Zeppelinlg (zeppelinlg)]

I have the same bug . it seem that it appear if a srt file have the same name that the video file.

[Ari (ari-reads)]

Same problem here! and same solution.... VLC

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Could you attach an example to the bug?

[Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie)]

Same problem to me. It seems like .sub subtitles work fine, the only problem being .srt.

[chantra (chantra)]

same here except that .sub, .srt, .txt give the same error:

$ls
movie.avi movie.srt
$ totem movie.avi
** Message: Error: Internal data flow error.
gstbasesrc.c(1642): gst_base_src_loop (): /play/subtitle-bin/filesrc0:
streaming task paused, reason not-linked (-1)

$mv movie.srt movie&.srt
$totem movie.avi

works fine, but you cannot view the subtitles

[Zeppelinlg (zeppelinlg)]

It seems as if the bug is fixed. The thing is I've set up many
softwares but I don't know which one has fixed the bug

2007/6/1, Bug Watch Updater <email address hidden>:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 70223 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70223
>
> ** Changed in: totem (upstream)
> Status: Unknown => Fix Released
>
> --
> Totem often returns: "internal data flow error" movies play good with VLC
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111326
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> of the bug.
>

[MichaelLerch (michaellerch)]

Yeah, I'm having the same problem.

media/300GB/movie_folder/MOVIE 1.avi
media/300GB/movie_folder/MOVIE 1.srt

If the sub file is the same name [but different extension, respectively] it causes Totem to crash with the "Internal data flow" error.

Zeppelinlg, do you think you installed the Totem Movie Player /w Xine backend and that fixed your problem?