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gst-plugins-ugly0.10 package

Can't play free format mp3

Bug #305998 reported by Paulo J. S. Silva on 2008-12-07

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gst-plugins-ugly0.10 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

It looks like the old bug #49522 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/+bug/49522). Gstreamer in intrepid stopped playing free format mp3s.

1) Ubuntu release:
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

2) Package version: 0.10.9-1

To reproduce it just do the following:

1) Rip any music to wav in /tmp

2) Compress it with lame using the --freeformat option:

lame --freeformat -b 128 my_music.wav

3) Try to play it using gstreamer:

gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///tmp/my_music.wav.mp3

Gstreamer will freeze saying "Pipeline is PREROLLING ..." No sound in the speakers.

Such files play fine with mpg321.

I attach a file the shows the problem.

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Paulo J. S. Silva (pjssilva) wrote on 2008-12-07:

02_e_andantino.freeformat.mp3 Edit (56.2 KiB, audio/mpeg)

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goto (gotolaunchpad) wrote on 2008-12-07:

I confirm this. Exactly the same error message.

My System: up2date Intrepid on AMD64

Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote on 2008-12-09:

I can also confirm this bug. I don't believe any more information is needed for a developer than the steps to reproduce that you have provided, so I'll mark it as Triaged. Thanks for reporting this.

Changed in gst-plugins-ugly0.10:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Paulo J. S. Silva (pjssilva) wrote on 2009-04-24:

Bug still there in 9.04. Now, instead of freezing I get the following error message:

pjssilva@leia:/tmp$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///tmp/02_e_andantino.freeformat.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
ERROR: from element /GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstMPEGAudioParse:mpegaudioparse0: No valid frames found before end of stream
Additional debug info:
gstmpegaudioparse.c(570): gst_mp3parse_sink_event (): /GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstMPEGAudioParse:mpegaudioparse0
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...