totem 2.28.2 media player mkv sound bug

[V.Stadnichuk]

When playing mkv video containing two sound tracks and trying to change file position or sound track sound disappears or appears randomly. For example after changing track it`s needed to change position some times in order to return sound. Vlc manages such files easily, including track and/or position jumps. This bug appears in a lot of files. I don`t know exectly what more info to produce, ask me at <email address hidden> if needed.

Ubuntu 9.10
totem 2.28.2-0ubuntu3
alsa-driver(?)
i386 (core2duo T7200) intel 82801 HDA (rev 01)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: e5f240aa44df6b356327dc476fb349e0
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Sat Jan 16 01:27:06 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, do you get the same if playing the file with : gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///path/to/file ? thanks.

[V.Stadnichuk (graydog)]

-----Original Message-----

> thanks for the report, do you get the same if playing the file with :
> gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///path/to/file ? thanks.
>

File plays normally, but did`t find any controls to change position or track.

output was:

gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=file:///home/grayd/Temp/test.mkv

(gst-launch-0.10:22435): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstPulseSinkClock
ERROR: from element /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstPlaySink:playsink0/GstBin:vbin/GstAutoVideoSink:videosink/GstXvImageSink:videosink-actual-sink-xvimage: Output window was closed
Additional debug info:
xvimagesink.c(1297): gst_xvimagesink_handle_xevents (): /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstPlaySink:playsink0/GstBin:vbin/GstAutoVideoSink:videosink/GstXvImageSink:videosink-actual-sink-xvimage
Execution ended after 39321937209 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. Thanks in advance!

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The mkv seeking problem should be fixed in GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.24. From the release notes:

# 620358 : [matroskademux] Sorenson Squish WebM output seeking issues
# 620743 : matroskademux: refactor delta unit handling
# 619485 : matroskademux: skip buffers before a late keyframe (QoS)

Those are GNOME bug numbers. The corresponding bug reports are at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620358
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620743
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619485

Please test with the Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" alpha 3 Live CD. After booting, and before testing, please use Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade Totem and the gstreamer packages, in particular the update of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good to 0.10.24.3-1ubuntu1

[madbiologist (me-again)]

There is another mkv seeking fix in GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.25. From the release notes:

Features of this release:

# seeking in matroska and webm files that don't have an index
# matroskademux: support seeking in local files even if they don't have an index
# 617368 : [matroska] Implement push-mode seeking and non-cue seeking

That last one has a GNOME bug number - the corresponding bug report is at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617368

They don't seem to have included the bug reference (if there was one) for the local file case.

Please test with the Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" beta CD. After booting, and before testing, please use Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade Totem and the gstreamer packages, in particular the update of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good to 0.10.25-4ubuntu1

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Does this work now with the final release of Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat"?

[madbiologist (me-again)]

If you have been getting any crashes when seeking in mkv files, there is a fix in GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.26. From the release notes:

Bugs fixed in this release

* 629047 : segfault in seek matroskademux

This package should soon make it's way into the Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" repositories (you can monitor this at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-good0.10 ).

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The GNOME bug for the above fix is at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629047

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you test in the latest release of Ubuntu Natty Narwhal and check if is still affecting you? Thank you

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!