GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 617957
[Gapless?] Certain video formats play audio only
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:53:08 UTC
With the video fix in Banshee 1.7, videos no longer open in a new window, but with certain codecs, (The one I'm currently having trouble with is the MP4 Container with H.264 Video). With these certain videos, when I play them, the sound will begin, but no video is played. In the Now Playing tab, it shows the default music note icon, or if it's a Podcast, it shows that podcast's icon. If it matters, I'm running Linux Mint 8, which is based on Ubuntu 9.10.
Steps to reproduce: Play a video with the MP4 container, and the H.264 video codec. Example: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp4/bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/revision3/web/diggnation/0253/diggnation--0253--flash--hd720p30.h264.mp4
Does it matter if the video podcast is downloaded vs streamed?
Just tried it, and it works if I stream it, but not if I download it, or play it from the File System Queue.
It looks like this problem is still around in 1.7.2, with streaming working and downloaded files not as Daniel reported. From my tests, it seems that the Podcast section is the only one affected with files in the video library playing as expected.
Problem still exists in Banshee 1.7.4
Does Totem play the video fine?
Totem plays the files just fine.
Created attachment 168573 [details] --debug log For reference since the bug doesn't have any logs of the issue. We got the attached one from a user on IRC who was experiencing this issue.
*** Bug 627908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm running version 1.7.5 I can't see any videos- mp4 or FLV. I hear the audio of them but not the video. If I click on Now Playing I can briefly see the video for about 1/2 second and then the viewing screen goes black but the audio continues.
When I shrink the screen (where the video should appear) from left to right.....I can see the video....though a little broken up.
it is still the same issue with me on the latest banshee Does not matter if it is streamed or not. With me, this happens when banshee automatically plays the next item in the list. If you go to the list and select the item, then it restarts the video and plays normally.
Still existing on Banshee 1.9.0 (Ubuntu 10.10 x64) with "Gapless Playback" enabled! Disabling the option solves the problem.
*** Bug 637491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marking as confirmed, updating status to indicate that this still is valid against git master.
The problem still exists for me in 1.9.1 even with Gapless Playback disabled.
Created attachment 176616 [details] Error log (banshee-1 --debug --redirect-log)
Thank you Daniel for the update, and Jeremy for the log. I am changing the title to admit that this might not be gapless, bane of my existence, causing this.
I can't even buffer video either
This may be a new bug (I'll file it too) but as of the last one or two GIT PPA releases Banshee simply crashes when I try to play a video podcast OR stream an audio one. I'll attach the error log
Created attachment 178536 [details] Error log
Created attachment 178538 [details] Error log
Created attachment 178539 [details] Error log
That log has a lot of libva stuff in it, but I doubt that is the cause of the problem. Is it possible for someone experiencing this on the latest daily (if at all possible on Natty) to attach a debug log: http://live.gnome.org/Banshee/CommonQuestions/Logs
What seems to be the problem is Clutterflow.
Here's my error log of this problem. In it, I first tried watching a downloaded video podcast which produced only audio. I then tried to watch a streaming video podcast which also failed. Finally, I played two videos from my collection that are known to work in VLC: a fansubbed episode of Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season, and an episode of Robotech I used HandBrake to rip. Oddly, the fansubbed show worked with video and audio playing normally but the Robotech episode crashed it. I'm wondering if this might be more inherent in the video decoder than say, the podcast module.
Created attachment 180140 [details] Banshee Debug Log I should also note that the sections where the videos are played are marked in the log.
*** Bug 642821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just managed to solve my problem by uninstalling gstreamer-vaapi which is apparently broken
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.