H 264 movies are not played properly in PPC dapper

[Sylvain BERTRAND]

Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer

On PPC (g4) dapper, totem is unable to play properly H 264 movies:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1227038672044466439 download the ipod/sony version of the movie and play it in totem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. It works fine on an i386 edgy installation. What do you call "play properly"? Could you describe what happens exactly? Does it play fine with "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/video"?

[fuoco (fuoco2-deactivatedaccount)]

I have a ppc machine running edgy (but it was the same with dapper). When I play a h264 file, in totem or through the gst playbin, I get garbled video. The sound works fine, just the video doesn't.
In dapper I thought that the codecs are not yet functional and the new and updated ones would be in edgy, but after the upgrade the situation is the same. I didn't test on other architectures and didn't know it was supposed to work on these.

[fuoco (fuoco2-deactivatedaccount)]

I used prevu to backport gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg from feisty to my edgy, and so far it seems h264 are playing great. Please consider fixing this issue by backporting a newer version of the ffmpeg gst plugin into edgy/dapper repositories.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what is "prevu"? If the bug is fixed to feisty the bug is considered fixed, we open backport task to indicate that a fix should be backport to some stable version. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is an universe package and it's likely that the change will not be backported

[fuoco (fuoco2-deactivatedaccount)]

prevu is a tool that automates backporting of packages from newer ubuntu versions to older.
This is a strange policy I must say. First of all I haven't tested feisty at all - I would suppose it works because it has the newer plugin, but I can't guarantee 100%.
The bug says h264 don't work on ppc dapper - how can it be considered fixed? anyone using ppc dapper still have that problem - not only that but you are implying the bug is not going to be fixed at all. (and by the way, I'm not even sure if fiesty will have ppc support eventually, which means the bug might be here to stay forever...)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is thousand of bugs opened and backporting a fix to stable requires efforts, somebody has to work on the update, make sure it works fine, then somebody has to approve it then quality people have to make sure it works fine and not creating any regression. We can't spend those efforts on every problem and usually bugs are fixed to the currently worked distribution and the fix is available with the next stable version. Fixes are backport for security issues and for problems which are juged annoying enough to require a quick fix. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is an universe package, which means it's not officially supported, the distribution team is not going to spend effort backporting a fix then. Maybe somebody from the MOTU team will be willing to work on that though