The browser plugin allows you to click on the progress bar while viewing RTSP streams, but never manages to read it after the click. Opening the same file in standalone Totem, the progress bar is disabled, so it seems seeking is not supported.

VLC is able to seek successfully, so it seems this is a GStreamer support limitation that the plugin doesn't check for.

You can check this with the French state television [1] (if you have Moonlight installed you won't see the right version). Plugin can be tested for example from [2], and the full address of the file is [3].

(Note that replacing rtsp:// by http:// in link [3], Totem is able to seek in the video. This may be logical and due to poor RTSP support in GStreamer, and not related to the present bug, though.)


It would be nice to prevent clicking on the bar, because that makes the plugin hangs, and forces you to reload the video, restarting from the begginning.


This is on Ubuntu 10.04, Totem 2.30.2, gstreamer-plugins-base 0.10.28 and gstreamer-plugins-good 0.10.21.


1: http://www.france2.fr/
2: http://info.francetelevisions.fr/video-info/player_html/index-fr.php?id-video=&chaine=&id-categorie=EMISSIONS_MOTS_CROISES&ids=&timecode=false&sequence=false
3: rtsp://a988.v101995.c10199.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/988/10199/3f97c7e6/ftvigrp.download.akamai.com/10199/cappuccino/production/publication/France_2/Autre/2010/S22/130431_motscroises_20100531.wmv