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gst-plugins-good0.10 package

[gutsy] totem time resets to zero when playing mpg

Bug #136704 reported by Rocko on 2007-09-02

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Totem	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
gst-plugins-good	Expired	Medium	gnome-bugs #480188
gst-plugins-good0.10 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer

When I play an mpgv (mpeg-1) file in totem-gstreamer, the time progress reading <current time> / <total time> keeps resetting current time to zero and then resetting it to the correct time, so it will say, for example:

Playing 0:06 / 15:40
Playing 0:00 / 15:40
Playing 0:07 / 15:40
Playing 0:00 / 15:40
Playing 0:07 / 15:40
Playing 0:08 / 15:40
Playing 0:00 / 15:40
Playing 0:08 / 15:40

etc.

It doesn't show this problem while it still says "Buffering", only when it says "Playing".

I tried totem-xine and vlc and they didn't have this problem.

Versions are:

totem-gstreamer: 2.19.90-0ubuntu3
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: 0.10.2-2ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good: 0.10-6-0ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly: 0.10-6-0ubuntu2
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse: 0.10.5-1
libgstreamer0.10-0: 0.10.14-1ubuntu1

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-09-03:

Thank you for your bug. I don't confirm the issue. Could you attach an example or give an url to download one?

Changed in totem:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Incomplete

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote on 2007-09-14:

mpg.tar.bz2 Edit (2.9 MiB, application/octet-stream)

I've found that it doesn't happen with all mpgs, just some that I tried. I've managed to isolate a small example for you.

It might be something to do with the way the sound is encoded, because when I removed the sound (using avidemux 'copy video' but with no sound), it didn't happen any more.

There are two files in the attached tar.bz file:

* mpg that resets time in totem-gstreamer2.avi
* demo of time reset in totem-gstreamer.ogg

The first one is a 7-second mpg that shows the problem when played in totem-gstreamer. The ogg file is a screen vid of totem-gstreamer playing a 12-second version of the file, captured with recordMyDesktop.

The video doesn't render in the ogg file, and it runs a bit slow (recordMyDesktop slows things down somewhat - when I play the mpg without recordMyDesktop recording, the time resets to zero more frequently that in the ogg file.), but it demonstrates the issue - you can see the time resetting to zero every now and again, going back to what it should be, then back to zero, etc.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-09-25:

Thank you for the example, I've sent that upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480188

Changed in totem:
importance:	Wishlist → Low
status:	Incomplete → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-09-26

Changed in totem:
status:	Unknown → Incomplete

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-05-26

Changed in totem:
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-11-30:

Upstream assigned this bug to gst-plugins-good, so I am doing the same here.

affects:	totem (Ubuntu) → gst-plugins-good0.10 (Ubuntu)
Changed in totem:
importance:	Unknown → Undecided
status:	Confirmed → New
status:	New → Invalid