Totem-plugin will no longer play streams from nrk.no in Lucid

[TH]

Binary package hint: totem

At least from Ubuntu 8.04, streams from http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/ has worked flawlessly in Firefox with Totem-plugin.
I recently upgraded my karmic (64-bit) to lucid, and noticed that I could no longer view streams from nrk.no. All updates are installed at the time of the bug-report.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Go to: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/627629
2) Stream fails to start

Expected result:
The stream should play as it did in earlier versions.

Additional info:
When using MediaPlayerConnectivity (an add-on for Firefox), I can choose between different streams:
1) mms://straumod.nrk.no/disk09/Nytt_pa__nytt/2010-04-10/NRK1_201004092056_MUHH-030013-10_150_600.wmv
2) http://straumod.nrk.no/disk09/Nytt_pa__nytt/2010-04-10/NRK1_201004092056_MUHH-030013-10_150_600.wmv
The first one is the "default" one, and results in the following error in Totem player: "Could not read from resource."
The second one plays fine, although the url in the playlist (from "Copy Location") shows "mmsh://..." instead of "http://...".

[Joacim Thomassen (joacim)]

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and I am not able to play the failing stream either. Repeating your "Steps to reproduce" with 8.04 gave the same problem as you report having with Lucid Beta. The "http://..." stream under "Additional info:" did work for Ubuntu 8.04.

Could there have been a win32codec version in Karmic that no longer is present after the upgrade to Lucid Beta?

[TH (thaugseth)]

From what I've read, the win64codec (for 64-bit OS) won't work with Totem/gstreamer on 64-bit Ubuntu because of a "missing" gstreamer-pitfdll package. From what I know, the package has only been made available for 32-bit OS.

Since I successfully play the http-stream, it seems unlikely that it's a codec-issue, although it could still be a problem with gstreamer instead of Totem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the page is working fine here with lucid as well did not encounter any issues. not confirming.

[TH (thaugseth)]

Perhaps something went wrong with the upgrade from karmic to lucid. Recently I did a fresh install on my computer. I've tested again, and now the video works.

The bug can be closed, unless someone else still has the same problem...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the bug then, thanks.