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Bug 539480 - Totem can't play .mov file - " don't know how to handle text/html"
Totem can't play .mov file - " don't know how to handle text/html"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 375867
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: GStreamer backend
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-21 16:15 UTC by Christoph Langner
Modified: 2009-11-16 12:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description Christoph Langner 2008-06-21 16:15:50 UTC
Please describe the problem:
I'm trying to play this video file with totem

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0806wdt546x/event/index.html

But i get the following error

$ totem http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/0806wdt546x/m_080690210abcn_650_ref.mov
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: YouTubeH264+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Creating object of type YouTubeH264+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Creating object of type YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:8024): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** Message: don't know how to handle text/html
** Message: Error: A text/html decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed.
gstdecodebin.c(792): close_pad_link (): /play/decodebin3:
No decoder to handle media type 'text/html'

** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|text/html decoder|decoder-text/html (text/html decoder)
keine Anwendung gefunden
** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.
** Message: don't know how to handle text/html
** Message: Error: A text/html decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed.
gstdecodebin.c(792): close_pad_link (): /play/decodebin4:
No decoder to handle media type 'text/html'

** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|text/html decoder|decoder-text/html (ignoring)
** Message: All missing plugins are blacklisted, doing nothing

I get neither Audio nor Video. I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron here with all the common gstreamer plugins installed.

$ dpkg -l gstreamer* | grep ii
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                         0.10.18-3
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg                       0.10.3-6
ii  gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs                     0.10.18-3
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad                  0.10.6-5
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse       0.10.6-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base                 0.10.18-3
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps            0.10.18-3
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good                 0.10.7-3ubuntu0.1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly                 0.10.7-3
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse      0.10.7-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio                   0.9.7-2
ii  gstreamer0.10-tools                        0.10.18-4ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-x                            0.10.18-3

$ dpkg -l libqu* | grep ii
ii  libquicktime1



Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/0806wdt546x/m_080690210abcn_650_ref.mov inside totem


Actual results:
No Video, no Audio

Expected results:
To see the recording

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2009-11-16 12:00:56 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 375867 ***