Bug#684231: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0: Music playback in Banshee/Rhythmbox stalls when changing from an MP3 track to a FLAC track

Alex Vanderpol karashata at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 00:07:33 UTC 2012


Package: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
Version: 0.10.36-1
Severity: important

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The libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 package versions since version 0.10.35-1
have been causing music playback in Banshee and Rhythmbox to stall at the
beginning of a new track when the new track is in FLAC format and the previous
track was in MP3 format. Playback may resume after some time, with playback
being skipped ahead the amount of time it was stalled. This issue is not
present in libgstreamer-plugins-base version 0.10.35-1.

I determined this package to be the cause of this issue after reverting it and
its various dependants to known "good" package versions (ie. did not have this
problem), loading up Banshee's play queue with a mix of FLAC and MP3 tracks,
then selectively updating GStreamer packages in small groups and playing
through the queue until the issue showed itself, then reverting to the "good"
packages again and narrowing down the number of packages being updated until it
was only this one being updated.

There does not seem to be any problem when the new track is in MP3 format and
the previous track was in FLAC format. There is also no issue when manually
switching tracks. Unfortunately I do not have music in other formats to
possibly test for the same kind of stalling. Totem does not seem to suffer from
this issue.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (650, 'experimental'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 depends on:
ii  iso-codes           3.37-1
ii  libc6               2.13-35
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.8-1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0  0.10.36-1
ii  liborc-0.4-0        1:0.4.16-2
ii  multiarch-support   2.13-35
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 suggests:
ii  gnome-codec-install    0.4.7+nmu1
ii  libvisual-0.4-plugins  0.4.0.dfsg.1-7

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