Bug#652250: libavcodec53 (et al) freeze totem playing .WMV

Steven R. Wright srw6666 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 18:11:09 UTC 2011


package: libavcodec53 (and others)

after a recent upgrade,  totem could no longer play a .WMV file;  it 
would freeze after what seemed to be a single frame.  the culprit 
appeared to be an upgrade of codecs:

ii  libavcodec53                          5:0.9-0.2                    
Library to encode decode multimedia streams - runtime files.
ii  libavdevice53                         5:0.9-0.2                    
FFmpeg device handling library.
ii  libavfilter2                          5:0.9-0.2                    
FFmpeg filter library.
ii  libavformat-dev                       5:0.9-0.2                    
Development files for libavformat.
ii  libavformat53                         5:0.9-0.2                    
FFmpeg file format library.
ii  libavutil-dev                         5:0.9-0.2                    
FFmpeg avutil devel files - devel files.
ii  libavutil51                           5:0.9-0.2                    
FFmpeg avutil library - runtime files

i rolled these back to:

ii  libavcodec53                          5:0.8.7-0.0                  
Library to encode decode multimedia streams - runtime files.
ii  libavdevice53                         5:0.8.7-0.0                  
FFmpeg device handling library.
ii  libavfilter2                          5:0.8.7-0.0                  
FFmpeg filter library.
ii  libavformat-dev                       5:0.8.7-0.0                  
Development files for libavformat.
ii  libavformat53                         5:0.8.7-0.0                  
FFmpeg file format library.
ii  libavutil-dev                         5:0.8.7-0.0                  
FFmpeg avutil devel files - devel files.
ii  libavutil51                           5:0.8.7-0.0                  
FFmpeg avutil library - runtime files

and totem was able to play .WMV files with no problems.

sRw





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