Totem skips mp3 (while Rhythmbox doesn't)

[Artem Vakhitov]

Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer

In Feisty development version with all updates as of March 19, 2007, Totem-gstreamer plays mp3 files with awful skipping, while Rhythmbox plays the same files fine. As both applications use Gstreamer as a backend, I presume this is a bug in Totem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 19 11:33:08 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.18.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem
ProcCwd: /home/temcat
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux eden 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 18 03:07:14 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Does it happen with any mp3 file or only some? Do you have the bug if you use "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/file"?

[Artem Vakhitov (temcat)]

This happens on all mp3 files. Also, here's what I get from the command you specified:

temcat@eden:/media/sda6/Music$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=/media/sda6/Music/natasha_perfectnine.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /playbin0: Invalid URI "/media/sda6/Music/natasha_perfectnine.mp3".
Additional debug info:
gstplaybasebin.c(1556): gen_source_element (): /playbin0
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

[Artem Vakhitov (temcat)]

Oops, nevermind the output in my last comment. Here's the correct command:

temcat@eden:/media/sda6/Music$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///media/sda6/Music/natasha_perfectnine.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstAudioSinkClock

It plays OK.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you run "GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 GST_DEBUG=5 totem &>log" and attach the log to the bug?

[Artem Vakhitov (temcat)]

OK, here it is. I loaded an mp3 and played the first several seconds (with skipping). The log is 23.5MB long, BTW.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've opened a bug upstream about it: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429666

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream comment:

"Does it work if you switch off visualisations in the totem preferences and
restart totem?

Does it work if you select a different type of visualisation? (e.g. libvisual_*
instead of goom)?"

[Artem Vakhitov (temcat)]

Hi, Totem doesn't skip for me if I switch off visualizations. As for selecting a different type of visualization, for some reason I cannot do it - only Goom is available.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've update the upstream bug with your comment

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Gutsy Gibbon. It won't be fixed in previous versions of Ubuntu because the bug doesn't fit requirements for backporting. See [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for more information.