totem-mozilla claims RTSP mime type but can't play them

[James Troup]

In Edgy, if you go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2.shtml

totem-mozilla will pop up a dialog informing you that it doesn't know how to play RTSP streams. Which is nice, but I don't want it to, I (ok, the user) has realplayer installed and it does know how to play RTSP. This is a regression from dapper.

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis (benjamin-hawkeslewis)]

You may find useful the crude workaround presented at:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/60377/comments/1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365409

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

 Comment #1 from chpe (developer, points: 25)
2006-10-26 20:39 UTC [reply]

IMHO you simply shouldn't ship the complex plugin (--disable-complex-plugin).

Comment #2 from Bastien Nocera (totem developer, points: 24)
2006-10-26 22:05 UTC [reply]

The complex plugin doesn't work with the currently released GStreamer, but does
with xine-lib. GStreamer CVS has RTSP support.

IMO, this is a packaging bug.

[Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka)]

Isn't there an issue here with the removal of totem-mozilla as well?

When I attempted to remove the totem-mozilla plugin my entire ubuntu-desktop dissappeared. Seems like the packaging needs to be fixed, no?

-- PASTED TEXT: --
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  totem-mozilla ubuntu-desktop
-- END --

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That upload fixes the bug:

 totem (2.17.3-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/rules:
     - don't build the complex plugin for gstreamer to not take over rtsp
       which can't be played by totem-gstreamer yet (Ubuntu: #66902)

[Michael Truscott (mltruscott)]

But what about us running edgy - can we have this fix as well?

On Thursday 21 December 2006 21:25, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> That upload fixes the bug:
>
> totem (2.17.3-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
> .
> * debian/rules:
> - don't build the complex plugin for gstreamer to not take over rtsp
> which can't be played by totem-gstreamer yet (Ubuntu: #66902)
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Le jeudi 21 décembre 2006 à 12:49 +0000, Michael Truscott a écrit :
> But what about us running edgy - can we have this fix as well?

The change needs some time to be tested on the new version before being
considered for backport

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

It seems to be working very good now, IMHO. Backport?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

might be a candidate for a backport, low priority though

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

Of cource the whole feisty package should not be backported, only adding --disable-complex-plugin to the edgy build of totem as a bugfix.

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

Since realplayer was added do edgy commercial today it's really time to put out a totem update for edgy with --disable-complex-plugin!

If you don't do some kind of divert or alternatives thing with the plugin of cource...

app-install-data-commercial (6.1)

    * added channels/opera.desktop
    * added channels/realplayer.desktop

[Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)]

Does Feisty's GStreamer have RTSP support, if so, the Complex plugin be re-enabled.