GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 389377
Totem dows not work with GStreamer pad problem.
Last modified: 2007-01-16 12:03:42 UTC
I installed totem and all GStreamer pakages(base, good, bad, ugly) on openSUSE 10.2 with AMD64 by downloading from repository. And I try to play avi, mpg, wmv and so all.But I can not play them. Totem just display below. "Internal GStreamer error: pad problem. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer."
Thanks for the bug report. Could you run totem from the command line (e.g. gnome-terminal) like this: $ export GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 $ GST_DEBUG=*:5 totem /path/to/some/file.avi 2>dbg.log ... wait for error, then close totem ... $ gzip dbg.log and attach the dbg.log.gz file?
I'm sorry about that I can not because I have reinstall openSUSE and error changed. "You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins." It looks a problem just do not have codec, I think. Before this, I have installed openSUSE by default KDE/KDM. But now, I have install set by default Gnome/GDM. I think it may be not good that I installed KDE and gnome both of them. But it is possible that confused by the other package? without conflict? Thank for your response.
> I'm sorry about that I can not because I have reinstall openSUSE and error > changed. > > "You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to > install the necessary plugins." > > It looks a problem just do not have codec, I think. If you run totem from the command line (konsole/gnome-terminal), like this: $ totem /path/to/file.avi It should print something like "Don't know how to handle xyz" to the terminal. If you tell us what xyz is, we can tell you what plugin you're missing. > Before this, I have installed openSUSE by default KDE/KDM. But now, I have > install set by default Gnome/GDM. > I think it may be not good that I installed KDE and gnome both of them. > But it is possible that confused by the other package? without conflict? This should be possible, KDE/Gnome/GDM shouldn't matter, the GStreamer packages should always be the same in this case. But I don't really know anything about SuSe I'm afraid, I suggest you try the SuSe forums/mailing lists.
At some time in the past, we discussed that apps should have a "More Information" toggle in error dialogs, so we could get useful bug reports from users. Did this never get implemented in totem?
> At some time in the past, we discussed that apps should have a "More > Information" toggle in error dialogs, so we could get useful bug reports from > users. Did this never get implemented in totem? Nope, AFAIK Bastien isn't particularly fond of that, to say the least. There will be better error dialogs for unhandled formats though when the automatic codec installation stuff gets fully implemented (so it says "Can't play this stream because you're missing an XYZ decoder" rather than "Can't play this stream because you're missing the appropriate decoder').
FWIW, with totem SVN trunk and gst-plugins-base CVS you should now get a decent error message telling you exactly what codecs you are missing. Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!