[hardy] totem-gstreamer DVB jerky playback

[Simone Tolotti]

I have a working DVB-S card (works well with kaffeine and xine).
I have dvb-channels.conf in ~/.gstreamer-0.10
I run Totem and select "Watch TV on 'DVB Adapter 0'", channels are correctly loaded in playlist box.
I select a FTA (free to air) channel and wait...
After few seconds the playback starts but is jerky (about 2 secs between each frame) and no audio.

Running totem-xine (channels.conf in ~/.xine ) instead crashes when trying to load channels list.
I had success running: totem-xine dvb://channelname
In this case playback is good.

I've installed totem-dbg and tried to run totem-gstreamer --debug, but i had no debugging output.

[Filippo Argiolas (fargiolas)]

Same problem here with a working dvb-t stick (hauppauge nova-t stick). It works with xine, mplayer, me-tv, mythtv but not with totem and gstreamer.
I don't have totem-xine installed neither i'm interested to try it.
Channels are loaded correctly, video starts but it is slow and jerky and no audio.
Attached totem output with GST_DEBUG=2

[brk (brouk-centrum)]

I have two PC. Desktop with actual Gentoo stable and PCI DVB-T tuner Hauppauge WinTV 2000 and laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 and USB DVB-T tuner Gigabyte U7000. USB DVB-T tuner works well with mplayer a (g)xine at both PC. Totem on my laptop with USB DVB-T is not working and Totem on my desktop works only with PCI DVB-T. Totem is not working with USB DVB-T tuner on any of my PCs.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

may someone having the issue forward this upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks in advance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Simone Tolotti (simontol)]

Totem doesn't play DVB at all in Jaunty due to a missing plugin (totem 2.26.1-0ubuntu5, gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.11-2ubuntu1).
I think this issue need some attention before dropping totem-xine in Karmic!

simone@simone-desktop:~$ totem-gstreamer
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
** Message: Error: Per riprodurre questo stream è richiesto un plugin Sorgente protocollo DVB, che però non risulta installato.
gstplaybasebin.c(1673): gen_source_element (): /GstPlayBin:play:
No URI handler for dvb

** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem-gstreamer|Sorgente protocollo DVB|urisource-dvb (Sorgente protocollo DVB)
** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.
** Message: Error: Per riprodurre questo stream è richiesto un plugin Sorgente protocollo DVB, che però non risulta installato.
gstplaybasebin.c(1673): gen_source_element (): /GstPlayBin:play:
No URI handler for dvb

** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem-gstreamer|Sorgente protocollo DVB|urisource-dvb (ignoring)
** Message: All missing plugins are blacklisted, doing nothing

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Last comment from upstream:
>>>
In Totem 2.30.x, we use gnome-dvb-daemon to stream the TV channels in Totem, so
the problem should be solved.
<<<
Therefore I am closing this bug. If this is still an issue for you with Ubuntu 10.04, please reopen this bug and make sure you leave a comment on the upstream bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550712. Thanks.