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Bug 614527 - Totem 2.30.0 no longer plays streaming flash video
Totem 2.30.0 no longer plays streaming flash video
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 613817
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Movie player
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-04-01 00:42 UTC by Albert Hopkins
Modified: 2010-04-01 11:42 UTC
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Description Albert Hopkins 2010-04-01 00:42:14 UTC 
In Totem 2.28.x I used to be able to play flash video via a URL stream.

Basically I have VLC streaming from a webcam flash video via http.  Before in Totem I could open the location http://hostname/stream.flv and it would play live video streamed from VLC.

When I upgraded to 2.30 today Totem onl shows a black screen.  There is no error or messages sent to stdout/stderr nor any dialog.  And the progress meters don't indicate that Totem is doing anything.  However it does say "Playing" and I can see from "netstat" that there is an HTTP conection to the streaming server.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2010-04-01 11:42:44 UTC 
Your GStreamer doesn't have support for download-buffering for non-fast-start FLV files.

Current GStreamer git and Totem master have support for those.

The work-around is to just wait until the file finishes downloading, and it will start playing.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613817 ***