GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 676434
pausing with space makes totem skip back to the previous spot where pause was used
Last modified: 2012-06-29 11:06:04 UTC
Say I am watching a video/DVD and pause the playback somewhere during watching (#1). Come back later, and re-begin to watch it again. then press space again (#2) to pause the playback. Then, at that moment the image displayed is the place in the video where the pause was first used i.e. #1. If you press space/click play, the playback begin from the first spot #1, not at #2 as expected. Yet another annoyance. You have to skip forward to find the spot #2 in the video where playback was stopped.
Which distribution is this about? Which kind of videos does this happen with? All, local, remote? Which types?
this is archlinux. was happening with the 32 bits version. Is still happening now with the 64 bits version. it happens with whatever video mp4, mkv (local) as far as I remember, or dvd. But this is not systematic: I can't reproduce it on demand. There may be another factor that trigger that behavior but I don't know what. remote ? you can't pause a streaming video here. at least the one I have tried
Please give exact reproduce steps, this is unusable to try and debug anything. You're probably having problems with the "Start playing files from last position" preference. Having a way to reproduce the problem means we could fix that problem.
Well, I couldn't say much more I already said. What's even more problematic, is that it does not happen all the time.
I'll take a punt and say this will fix the problem. Reopen if that fix doesn't solve the problem for you. commit e6ffb10388ca052dc06404ad8ad163619d131281 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Fri Jun 29 11:58:23 2012 +0100 main: Don't forget to clear seeking on close If we had opened a file, got a remembered position to restore, but never actually got a change in the seekable property, we wouldn't have clear the seek to position. This should fix bizarre behaviour if you're skipping between streams too quickly for GStreamer to see the stream is seekable. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676434