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Bug 569202 - ASX files that don't play from firefox
ASX files that don't play from firefox
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins-bad
0.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-01-26 15:27 UTC by Duncan Lithgow
Modified: 2010-06-23 09:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description Duncan Lithgow 2009-01-26 15:27:40 UTC
Forwarded upstream from https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/80365

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Ubuntu 9.04
Firefox 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Movie player, totem 2.25.3-0ubuntu2

What happens
* Link number four at http://www.radionz.co.nz/search?mode=results&queries_all_query=stallman redirects to http://www.radionz.co.nz/__data/assets/audio_item/0008/1699424/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-m048.asx which should play an interview with Richard Stallman
* A page opens with a media icon and nothing happens. The right click context menu includes "Totem Browser Plugin 2.25.3 - Browser Plugin using GStreamer 0.10.22"
* 'Open with "Movie player" ' complains "An error occurred /r Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file."

What should happen:
* If Ubuntu can play the supplied file, then it should 'just work'.
* If Ubuntu can't play the supplied file it should explain why.

In Ubuntu 9.04 these streams also fail:

* http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5780054/test.asx The windows just says "stopped". 'Open with Movie Player' reports 'buffering' and then 'playing' but nothing happens.
* http://www.abc.net.au/science/broadband/catalyst/asx/Catalyst16_vortex_hi.asx The windows just says "stopped". 'Open with Movie Player' reports 'buffering' and then 'playing' but nothing happens.

Using cli and mplayer I can download the file at http://www.radionz.co.nz/__data/assets/audio_item/0008/1699424/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-m048.asx which then plays fine.

$ mplayer -playlist url -dumpfile out.mpg -dumpstream
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2009-01-26 15:42:31 UTC
It's a problem with mmssrc, as far as I can tell.

$ mplayer -nocache mms://202.7.7.90/rnz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-048.mp3
<snip>

Playing mms://202.7.7.90/rnz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-048.mp3.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://202.7.7.90/rnz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-048.mp3
Connecting to server 202.7.7.90[202.7.7.90]: 1755...
connect error: Connection refused
Connecting to server 202.7.7.90[202.7.7.90]: 80...
Connecting to server 202.7.7.90[202.7.7.90]: 80...
Cache size set to 0 KBytes
Stream not seekable!
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Stream not seekable!
Clip info:
 name: Richard Stallman: Freedom
 author: Radio New Zealand
 copyright: Saturday Morning, 2008
 comments: Software freedom activist vi
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 48.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 6000->88200)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   6.9 (06.8) of 1909.0 (31:49.0)  0.2%                                     
Comment 2 Wim Taymans 2009-01-26 16:06:38 UTC
Again some more libmms fuckup. It seems most other players have moved away from it and implement their own mms version now. Maybe we should do the same.
Comment 3 Jan Schmidt 2009-03-06 18:18:38 UTC
This doesn't seem like a blocker bug to me - it's not a regression.
Comment 4 Edward Hervey 2010-03-03 18:28:23 UTC
Duncan, Works fine for me. Can you confirm ?
Comment 5 Tobias Mueller 2010-04-18 21:01:55 UTC
Closing as OBSOLETE as per last comment.
Comment 6 Duncan Lithgow 2010-04-20 18:41:24 UTC
Sorry for the late response. I gave three example links, one of them now works.

Doesn't work: http://www.radionz.co.nz/__data/assets/audio_item/0008/1699424/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom-m048.asx
Doesn't work: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5780054/test.asx
Works: http://www.abc.net.au/science/broadband/catalyst/asx/Catalyst16_vortex_hi.asx

This is now on Ubuntu 9.10, Firefox 3.6.3 and totem 2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1
Comment 7 Edward Hervey 2010-06-23 09:42:54 UTC
All links work fine with git of today, marking as OBSOLETE.