GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 425948
[mmssrc] problem with CNN streams
Last modified: 2009-04-21 18:45:22 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/97686 "Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer On Feisty with all codecs installed and where a wmv file (even with mms) works out, the CNN Pipeline does not works out. The problem could step from the file type use by CNN wich is "application/x-vnd-cnn-pipeline". I know that Totem with GStreamer is able to play the CNN Pipeline (because I follow the development of GStreamer and some people of the Fluendo team has already play CNN Pipeline with Totem-GStreamer) therefore it's an Ubuntu bug. Url to CNN : http://www.cnn.com Url to CNN Pipeline : http://www.cnn.com/pipeline/ ... > Can you play that video with some other software? ... Yes with VLC media player. ... > can you try to play the URI while the token is valid from a command line with "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=...." and not what happens to a comment? getting a GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 GST_DEBUG=3 gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri= log could be useful ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/7093673/GST_Debug GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 GST_DEBUG=3 pluton@pluton-desktop:~$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=mms://wmscnnlive.stream.aol.com/live/cnn/pipeline_1?1175349820715-A9FEE7BC-43200-18700ec6 Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Could not read packet header: Success ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause. ERROR: from element /playbin0/source: Could not connect to this stream Additional debug info: gstmms.c(317): gst_mms_start (): /playbin0/source Setting pipeline to NULL ... FREEING pipeline ... For the GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 GST_DEBUG=3 see the attachment. ... You can have a 3 minutes free each day without registration, right here : http://premium.cnn.com/pr/pipeline/download.html?mode=live&stream=1"
> I know that Totem with GStreamer is able to play the CNN Pipeline (because I > follow the development of GStreamer and some people of the Fluendo team has > already play CNN Pipeline with Totem-GStreamer) therefore it's an Ubuntu bug. If you're refering to Christian Schaller's blog entry, he said "Using Fluendo's Windows Media plugins I am now able to view the videoclips on cnn.com for instance." (ie. they were using their own proprietary/for-pay mms plugin). Looks like an mmssrc issue at first glance, so moving to -bad.
Hi, I've been working on mms support in gstreamer lately, see: bug 469930. I've tried to take a look at this too, but cnn's site is broken beyond repair when it comes to non windows use. Even when using a firefox extension to lie about the browser / platform firefox really is, it still refuses to give me a webpage with an embed tag. So I have no clue what the mms / mmsh url for the cnn live feed is, and even if I would have fixing it is of little use, since things still will not work out of the box even with all the necessarry gstreamer plugins installed.
Sebastien, Hans : cnn.com seems to be using flash streaming everywhere now. Shall we close this bug ?
Yes, close please.