GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 117786
[0.6.3] Can't play files on a read-only NTFS drive
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: GStreamer Severity: major Version: Player 0.5.1 (Backend version 0.6.2) Synopsis: Can't play files on a read-only NTFS drive Bugzilla-Product: GStreamer Bugzilla-Component: don't know Description: Description of Problem:/usr/sbin/sendmail Can't play video/audio on my windows xp NTFS hard drive Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open File on NTFS mounted drive... 2. 3. Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: Video/Mp3 should play How often does this happen? Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-07-18 13:08 ------- Unknown version unspecified in product GStreamer. Setting version to "0.3.3". The original reporter (paulskin@msol.co.za) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gstreamer-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Filesrc can't read from files that can't be mmaped(). There is another bug related to this, but I can't find it right now.
*** Bug 118582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I got bored and wrote a fallback when mmap fails. It was actually easier than I thought, and seems to work well.
Created attachment 18742 [details] [review] backported patch
Applied, thanks. :).