GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 407634
[oggdemux] Randomly stops playing radio streams
Last modified: 2009-10-15 17:22:36 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/80684 "Binary package hint: rhythmbox While playing radio streams (such as from HBR2.com), Rhythmbox will periodically stop playback without issuing an indication why it stopped. I can usually restart it without issue by just clicking 'play' again. The root cause of this might be deeper in one of Rhythmbox's dependencies (e.g. gstreamer), however it is a Rhythmbox bug that it is not reporting an error message as to why playback has stopped. ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/6406981/log.2a Here is the output from running "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=...". Again, it ran for about 30-45 minutes before stopping play. During this time there were several "drop outs" where playback stopped for about 1 sec or less and then restarted. These dropouts correspond to the 'Unexpected discontinuity' error messages. However, I see the underlying error message now: 'Got EOS from element "playbin0"'. This is probably what needs to get propagated up to the UI. ..."
Could you provide a working example URI that demonstrates the problem please? The one mentioned in the launchpad bug doesn't seem to work (or rather: I can't reach hbr1.com, and hbr2.com looks like a random search engine/ad spam site). I suspect the problem is chained oggs though (= bug #320984).
I've encountered this problem with several streams, however the ones used in all the above reports are: http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/ambient.ogg http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/trance.ogg http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/tronic.ogg I used these URLs because they come configured as defaults in Ubuntu's rhythmbox.
Maybe they're using chained oggs, for which we have support in decodebin2/playbin2. bryce, do you still get this issue with latest gstreamer ?
downstream reply to the question: " "Still an issue in Jaunty. Just happened yesterday in fact, and has been happening fairly routinely since the original report."
> "Still an issue in Jaunty. Just happened yesterday in fact, and has been > happening fairly routinely since the original report." This is to be expected. It will be an issue until rhythmbox, totem etc. all use playbin2. You should probably dup this against the corresponding rb/totem bug instead, since the GStreamer side of it should be taken care of and it's not going to be fixed for the old playbin.
*** Bug 582966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 396409 ***