GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 584277
Totem stops playback of a several minutes paused mms stream
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:34:11 UTC
Hi I've experienced a problem regarding Totem 2.26.1: Totem stops playback after some seconds of playing a several minutes paused mms stream [1]. [1] mms://ondemand.msmedia.zdf.newmedia.nacamar.net/zdf/data/msmedia/3sat/09/05/090522_sendung_nano_vh.wmv Regards, Nameless
I don't understand what the problem is here. Could you explain step-by-step how to reproduce the problem?
1. Start playing a MMS video stream in Totem 2. Pause playback for a while 3. Continue playback, but it will stop after some seconds
Same issue here, when I pause a stream and then resume it a few minutes later it will only play the buffered few seconds and then stop. I have to launch the video again to finish watching the stream. Using Gnome 2.30 Heard there was some kind of progressive stream loading feature planned, even saw a screen shot where the progress bar was showing buffered video like youtube does with videos. Is this feature still coming?
I confirm this bug. Every stream that I play on totem has this issue. After pausing a stream, and then starting it again, the stream plays for some minutes and then stops. Presumably what's happening is that once a stream is paused in totem, totem stops buffering the stream. When the play button is pressed again, totem does not start buffering the stream again, but rather plays the remainder of what it had buffered before the pause button was pressed and then ends playback when that finishes.
I should note that the streams I typically play on totem are actually podcasts which I play as a stream rather than downloading the entire file first. An example of such a podcast is Linux Outlaws: http://media.libsyn.com/media/linuxoutlaws/linuxoutlaws171.ogg I use the Liferea RSS aggregator program which allows me to initiate a streaming connection to the ogg file in totem. I perceive that this is the same problem described in the bug report, though.
*** Bug 643520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A possible simple fix for this (at least for me) is to introduce a "Stop" button in Totem. A stop button normally halts all media playback and the next time you press "play" your media file plays from the beginning. In the UDP-style online streaming context, this means that the next time I press play, it loads the stream again as if I had just opened it.
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