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Bug 428901 - [icydemux] broken tags for non-UTF-8/ISO-8859-1-using radio streams
[icydemux] broken tags for non-UTF-8/ISO-8859-1-using radio streams
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins-good
0.10.12
Other All
: Normal normal
: 0.10.6
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-04-12 05:27 UTC by atie H.
Modified: 2007-04-12 20:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18



Description atie H. 2007-04-12 05:27:03 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When I play a streaming station with the istream panel applet, I can see songs' title shown with unreadable characters.

My system's LANG is en_US.UTF-8, and the station I played usually broadcasts Korean(mostly cp949 tagged) songs. I know there is no charset info on the stream to begin with because it's usual case by shoutcast and icecast streamings - the info is conditional by spec. But, because I can guess those songs tagged with Korean, starting istream given with LANG=ko_KR.euckr brings song's title look OK.

But, problem is with normal starting of the istream, this is because, I looked, that icydemux's magling functions try to convert,
1) $LANG to UTF-8
2) iso8859-1 to UTF-8 if 1) failed.

As you may see now, 1) mine is already UTF-8 and it doesn't match with song's tagging charset(cp949) either, 2) makes more trouble - cp949 can't be iso8859-1.

I think, this is a common problem to at least for CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) users who use their UTF-8 system and listen streaming station running on Windows so maybe already filed for bug. But, I am new here and this is my first bug report to Gnome so wasn't familiar to check duplications. 


Steps to reproduce:
1. install the istream panel applet
2. edit ~/.istream file to add this entry to top, mukulcast (KPop)=http://mukulcast.com
3. play the mukulcast, after openings you will see unreadable song's title for Korean. 


Actual results:
Title of songs can't be readable for Korean.

Expected results:
No matter I start the istream applet with or without LANG env set, the title should be readable for Korean.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
I looked, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428689 
this patch maybe targeted for files, but the idea of the patch generally fix this problem too if it's for icydemux, I believe. Somewhere need to manually store preferred charset for conversion, since currently no valid charset info provided by LANG nor streaming for this reported case.
Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2007-04-12 16:09:46 UTC
You should be able to make this work by setting the GST_ICY_TAG_ENCODING environment variable now:

 2007-04-12  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>

       * gst/icydemux/gsticydemux.c: (notgst_tag_freeform_string_to_utf8),
       (gst_icydemux_unicodify):
         If the metadata strings we get in the stream are not UTF-8, try to
         interpret them according to the character encodings specified in the
         GST_ICY_TAG_ENCODING and GST_TAG_ENCODING environment variables, and
         only fall back to locale/ISO-8859-1 if those aren't set or don't
         work. Should fix #428901.

Comment 2 Tim-Philipp Müller 2007-04-12 16:32:23 UTC
Any chance you could provide a sample URI/web site, so I can make sure it works as expected?
Comment 3 atie H. 2007-04-12 18:13:42 UTC
Thanks for quick fix.

one is there on step 2 for reproducing, and in case here is 2nd URI for your test.
http://mukul.inlive.co.kr/listen.pls
Comment 4 Tim-Philipp Müller 2007-04-12 19:55:19 UTC
Seems to work:

$ GST_ICY_TAG_ENCODING=CP949 gst-launch-0.10 -t playbin uri=http://c27.inlive.co.kr:33000
  ...
FOUND TAG      : found by element "icydemux0".
           title: 서문탁 - 흔적
  ...


Comment 5 atie H. 2007-04-12 20:51:49 UTC
Confirm the fix worked with my plugin package built, thanks.