Bug#274691: totem-gstreamer: can't play anything due to multiple bugs

Linas Vepstas Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>, 274691@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:52:08 -0500


Package: totem-gstreamer
Version: 0.99.16-1
Severity: normal


I'm unable to play any video file I have, for a variety of different
reasons.  In no particular order:

playing a file while xmms is also playing gives an error popup:
"OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by another program."
Note that xmms was set up to use "esd", the esound daemon.
Exiting xmms without exiting esd will keep the error popup from
showing up; however, video still won't play.

Killing esd also stops the error popup, but video still won't play.
The above are for an avi video.
(thecell.avi)

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Attempting to play an mp4 (TheBuEp01.mp4) casuses following to be
printed on stdout: 
(totem:8956): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: file gstpad.c: line 4105
(gst_pad_send_event): assertion `GST_STATE (parent) >= GST_STATE_PAUSED'
failed

again, the video will not play, it goes into paused state.
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Attempting to play an mpg video, a few frames do display, a fraction
of a second or so, but then there's an error popup:  
"Internal GStreamer error: pad problem.  File a bug."

(robot-dex_test.mpg)

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Playing a mov file does play the sound track, but no video display.
video area is not refreshed, just has garbage in it.
(nintendo.mov)

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For some mov's the audio is corrupted (just very loud noise), and still
no picture.

(primordial75_1_92.mov)

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Playing a vob file gives me extreme slo-mo video, and no sound track.
(starship.vob)

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*none* of my video files, in a bunch of formats, are playable!
(they all work fine in xine and vlc)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages totem-gstreamer depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.6.4-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gstreamer0.8-aa [gstreame 0.8.4-1        AA-lib plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstrea 0.8.4-1        ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-artsd [gstre 0.8.4-1        aRtsd plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-caca [gstrea 0.8.4-1        Colour AsCii Art library plugin fo
ii  gstreamer0.8-esd [gstream 0.8.4-1        Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin fo
ii  gstreamer0.8-gnomevfs     0.8.4-1        Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-jack [gstrea 0.8.4-1        JACK plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-mad          0.8.4-1        MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for 
ii  gstreamer0.8-misc         0.8.4-1        Collection of various GStreamer pl
ii  gstreamer0.8-oss [gstream 0.8.4-1        OSS plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-sdl [gstream 0.8.4-1        SDL videosink plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-vorbis       0.8.4-1        Vorbis plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-x [gstreamer 0.8.4-1        X videosink plugin for GStreamer
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-4        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-7        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                   0.2.34-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.2-2      GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.4-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.0-6        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.6-3        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.6.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.2.1-3        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-4      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.2-2        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11               1.0.16-8       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             1.0-1          library for common error values an
ii  libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0   0.8.4-1        GConf support for GStreamer
ii  libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 0.8.4-1        Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0         0.8.5-1        Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.10-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblircclient0            0.6.6-12       LIRC client library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.7-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.4-13     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.10-4       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxtst6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System event recording an
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.2-1    compression library - runtime

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