GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323255
Totem-gst to show video if subtitle format is unrecognised
Last modified: 2006-10-27 17:43:32 UTC
I have a video stream consisting of an XVID video, AC3 5.1 audio, and a subtitle file that 'file' says is "MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex". I haven't yet found a program which would be able to read this subtitle format. However, that's not the problem.. Whereas "gst-launch filesrc movie.avi ! spider ! xvimagesink" and mplayer both display the video fine (mplayer complaining that it does not recognise the subtitles), totem 1.2 fails with the error: "Totem could not play 'file:///tmp/movie.avi'. "There were no decoders found to handle the stream, you might need to install the corresponding plugins" Upon debugging, I found that it's the (automatically loaded) subtitle file that causes this error, not the video stream itself. Instead of unloading the subtitles and continuing with the video stream only, Totem will not display anything at all until I remove/rename the .sub file - after which Totem has no problems with the video stream itself. packages installed (RPMs from nrpms.net and freshrpms): totem-1.2.0-2.1.fc4.nr gstreamer-0.8.11-1.1.fc4.nr gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.7-1.2.fc4.rf gstreamer-plugins-0.8.11-1.1.fc4.nr
Actually, mplayer does show the subtitles after all - although at the same time it complains that it can not. The file is probably a "vobsub".
This (the error/lockup) has actually been fixed recently (apologies for marking this a s duplicate of the more recent other bug). There's also bug #350311 to make vobsubs actually work. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 339366 ***
Actually, not quite true. It still hangs for vobsubs, but for a different reason. Will look into it. There is also bug #334322 for this, so I will just leave that one open until this is fixed properly. Sorry for the confusion.