Bug 639071 – GStreamer cannot play h264 encoded files

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Bug 639071 - GStreamer cannot play h264 encoded files


Summary:	GStreamer cannot play h264 encoded files


Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	GStreamer
Classification:	Platform
Component:	gst-libav
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	NONE
Assigned To:	GStreamer Maintainers
QA Contact:	GStreamer Maintainers

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Reported:	2011-01-09 15:13 UTC by Alexey Titov
Modified:	2011-03-03 11:28 UTC

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Attachments
HDV_0112-head.mp4 (990.00 KB, video/mp4) 2011-01-10 15:15 UTC, Alexey Titov	Details
HDV_0113-head.mp4 (990.00 KB, video/mp4) 2011-01-10 15:16 UTC, Alexey Titov	Details

Description Alexey Titov 2011-01-09 15:13:52 UTC

I tried to open some videos from my camera by Totem player on Ubuntu 10.10 and received general GStreamer error. Then I tried the following command  

 gst-launch-0.10 --gst-debug-level=2 filesrc location=HDV_0100.MP4 ! qtdemux ! ffdec_h264 ! ximagesink

The command produced following output:
0:00:00.054656259  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux_types.c:170:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type @sec
0:00:00.054704259  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux_types.c:170:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type SDLN
0:00:00.054723951  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux_types.c:170:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type avc1
0:00:00.054738413  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux_types.c:170:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type avcC
0:00:00.054752303  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux_types.c:170:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type btrt
0:00:00.055171066  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux.c:5832:qtdemux_parse_trak:<qtdemux0> unknown version 00000000
0:00:00.056714671  2234       0x9ae140 ERROR                 ffmpeg :0:: Decoding pps 0 from avcC failed
0:00:00.056805090  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux.c:2980:gst_qtdemux_loop:<qtdemux0> error: streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated
0:00:00.056905758  2234       0x9ae140 ERROR                 ffmpeg gstffmpegdec.c:2306:gst_ffmpegdec_frame:<ffdec_h2640> no codec context

When I used Ubuntu 10.04 totem played file correctly.

Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2011-01-09 22:10:02 UTC

Could you make a sample file available please?

(If that's not possible, could you attach the first 990kB of the file to this bug report, via
   head --bytes=990k HDV_0100.MP4 2> HDV_0100-head.mp4
).

Comment 2 Alexey Titov 2011-01-10 15:15:16 UTC

Created attachment 177938 [details]
HDV_0112-head.mp4

Comment 3 Alexey Titov 2011-01-10 15:16:23 UTC

Created attachment 177939 [details]
HDV_0113-head.mp4

Comment 4 Alexey Titov 2011-01-10 15:18:23 UTC

I have attached 2 files with different resolution.

Comment 5 Alexey Titov 2011-01-10 15:49:48 UTC

It is first 990k

Comment 6 Alexey Titov 2011-01-17 18:59:32 UTC

Do you need more info?

Comment 7 Akhil Laddha 2011-03-03 11:17:38 UTC

Information provided.

Comment 8 Tim-Philipp Müller 2011-03-03 11:28:28 UTC

>  gst-launch-0.10 --gst-debug-level=2 filesrc location=HDV_0100.MP4 ! qtdemux !
> ffdec_h264 ! ximagesink
> ...
> 0:00:00.056805090  2234       0x9ae140 WARN                 qtdemux
> qtdemux.c:2980:gst_qtdemux_loop:<qtdemux0> error: streaming stopped, reason
> not-negotiated

The problem is the ximagesink. Try xvimagesink, or use ffmpegcolorspace ! videoscale ! ximagesink instead.