Pause sets video back

[Christoph Langner]

Binary package hint: totem

Sometimes when i watch a movie and pause the film via the spacebar (or via the pause key on my keyboard) the video jumps a little bit back. I often notice that when i rewinded the video a little bit, before i hit pause. The problem can't be reproduced every time, but now and then it happens.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: totem 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 7 15:56:44 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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[Christoph Langner (chrissss)]

> 1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,

The easy part...

* Get a keyboard with media keys like Play, Pause, Fast Forward,...
* Play a movie inside totem. For example Elephant's Dream or Big Buck Bunny
* Fast forward to the middle of the movie

The hard (and not always reproducible) part

* Pause the video
* Press rewind on your media key for a short moment so you only rewind a little bit
* Press pause/play again

>2. the behavior you expected

The video should start at that frame where i rewinded into.

> 3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).

I noticed quite often, that totem rewinds even further a couple of keyframes although I - for sure! - pressed only play/pause. I was able to reproduce this with my apple keyboard aswell as with a RF remote control.

[slayer (antoniochiaravalloti)]

I am affected too by this bug.

If I am watching a divx movie and I press the "space bar" button, the movie correctly pauses.
If I press the "space bar" button again, the movie starts again from the beginning.

This problem doesn't happen if I set the movie in pause by left-clicking the pause button in the totem-gstreamer window.

[stop (whoopwhoop)]

I have a similar experience, I'm watching a file, I pause the file, I resume and it starts at some location between the beginning and the part where I was.
Not just via using space, also when I click the GUI button itself. Like people say it doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen. For me it happens quite often (more than 50%).
It could be a that it is easier to reproduce if you hit pause, let some time pass, and then resume. It doesn't really happen to me if I click pause and play with a short time interval in between (basically it never happens when I'm trying to make it happen)..

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Is there any news about this bug? Are you still experiencing the problem? Has someone affected by this bug sent the report upstream? Could you tell us the bug number, so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status.? Thanks in advance.

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[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Sorry, wrong link :)

[stop (whoopwhoop)]

I am still experiencing this problem in oneiric...

[Sergey K (koblin)]

i have this bug in Ubuntu 11.10

[Christoph Langner (chrissss)]

> I am still experiencing this problem in oneiric...

Me too