GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 620039
Some videos fail silently when named (incorrectly?) as .mp4
Last modified: 2010-09-13 13:41:39 UTC
Giving certain FLV files a filename extension .mp4 makes them fail silently in Totem. There is no error message or even any --debug output, nothing happens when you try to play them. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with the GStreamer version of Totem. Example: $ youtube-dl --version 2010.04.04 $ youtube-dl -b -o test.mp4 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2oLoBpFmho' $ totem --version totem 2.30.2 $ totem test.mp4 Won't work $ mv test.mp4 test.whatever $ totem test.whatever Works fine
Works fine here. It just takes a long while to start playing (which is likely a GStreamer problem).
Definitely not just slow. Works instantly with any other extension and not at all with mp4. Also gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:`pwd`/test.mp4 works just fine for me.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
What information?
commit 0e3d58f61615c6a6a9c4a27ee58fd545e18fe7c3 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Mon Sep 13 14:32:17 2010 +0100 Make sure videos disguised as MP4 aren't unhandled *.mp4 files were ignored if they were actually detected as any other type. This was the case for 3gpp files, but it would happen for *all* files types that weren't listed. And we can't list every file type as possibly being a quicktime file. So we ignore files that are text/plain, or a sub-class of it. This makes FLV hiding as an MP4, or 3GPP hiding as an MP4 work correctly. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620039