GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 603549
.ra file with AC-3 audio doesn't play
Last modified: 2009-12-08 21:27:41 UTC
Created attachment 148874 [details] file with .ra extention identified as audio/vnd.rn-realaudio in FF. Overview: --------- 1. (Gstreamer based) Totem Movie Player cannot neither play attached file stored locally nor can it stream the file in FF (as well as any other files) from this URL http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp 2. While attempting to play file stored locally by running: totem --debug --play [any_file_from_that_web_site.ra] there is no output in console. Totem just stays for ever not playing anything. Environment: ------------ The problem persists in Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 and 9.10. All Gstreamer plugings including extra plugins such as gstreamer-plugin-bad/ugly/ffmpeg, ect. are installed. In Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04 the files in problem can be played and streamed in FF with Totem-xine.
This problem has been fixed in the development version (of gst-plugins-ugly). The fix will be available in the next major software release (0.10.14). Thank you for your bug report.
Sorry, meant to mark it as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 599676 ***
I'm sorry but this is either NOT DUPLICATE or it is NOT properly FIXED yet. You see, Totem in Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04, and 9.10 CAN PLAY the file from the bug 599676 (http://wso.williams.edu/~aeatonsa/bomb/audio/real/Track13.ra) But it still CANNOT PLAY neither the file attached to my report nor can it play either of files from the reported URL (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp).
Sorry, I just wanted to mention another detail if it would be at any help. The files reported Totem has problem with are played fine not only with Totem-xine, as I mentioned initially, by with VLC 9.x and later as well. So, the files are playable.
Well, this works fine for me with GStreamer git: gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=http://bible.ort.org/webmedia/t1/0101.ra This is the URI referenced from http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp#C1 by the little red speaker icon next to '1:1'. If you want me to try any other URIs, please specify the full path to the .ra file.
Yes, you are right it does plays in Ubuntu 8.04. My bad, I've set it way ago to use Totem-xine instead of Totem since it used to fail on this files. I guess after some updates its fine now. But on Ubuntu 9.10 I still have a problem and I would greatly appreciate your help to resolve it. Here is the command I run and debug output in console: username@karmic:~$ gst-launch-0.10 --gst-debug-level=2 playbin2 uri=http://bible.ort.org/webmedia/t1/0101.ra 0:00:00.035295368 8818 0xa04e050 WARN GST_PLUGIN_LOADING gstplugin.c:422:gst_plugin_register_func: plugin "/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstladspa.so" failed to initialise Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is PREROLLING ... Pipeline is PREROLLED ... Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... 0:00:00.805219689 8817 0xa1f5ca0 WARN bin gstbin.c:2312:gst_bin_do_latency_func:<playbin20> failed to query latency New clock: GstSystemClock Got EOS from element "playbin20". Execution ended after 2449239 ns. Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Setting pipeline to READY ... Setting pipeline to NULL ... Freeing pipeline ... The failing to initialize library (libgstladspa.so) is installed. I've tried to completely remove gstreamer-plugin-bad and then to install it again, it did not help. I can provide you with debug level 3 output if you find needed but it only adds a lot of INFO items.
This is upstream bugzilla, so what I'm most interested in is whether it works with the latest upstream version or not. Ubuntu 9.10 does not ship the latest upstream versions (but even if it did, that probably wouldn't help in this particular case, since it's only fixed in -ugly git). If you want Ubuntu to backport patches (unlikely to happen in this case), you need to file a patch in their bug tracker. When gst-plugins-ugly 0.10.14 is released, you might be able to find packages for Ubuntu 9.10 in the GStreamer PPA. In the meantime, you can always build gst-plugins-ugly from git yourself of course.
Your last post helped to convince Ubuntu folks that a ball on their side now. Thanks for the information.