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Bug 679969 - [matroskademux] "reading large block of size 42708909 not supported"
[matroskademux] "reading large block of size 42708909 not supported"
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins-good
0.10.31
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: NONE
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-07-15 18:15 UTC by Alex Shpilkin
Modified: 2015-09-10 20:18 UTC
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Description Alex Shpilkin 2012-07-15 18:15:32 UTC 
I encountered an MKV video file that, when played over FTP, gives rise to the above error message, both with "gst-launch-0.10 -v playbin2 uri=$URL" and "gst-launch-0.10 -v giosrc location=$URL ! matroskademux ! fakesink" (and in Totem). Overall, this looks totally identical #626463, except for the required block size.

__tim on #gstreamer said that the block size limit is 15 MB currently; he also suggested setting GST_PLAY_FLAG_DOWNLOAD on playbin2, but (a) I don't know if Totem enables it and (b) Matroska is not whitelisted for download buffering anyway.

Is such a file meant to be supported? (Unfortunately, it's too big to just upload it somewhere.)
Comment 1 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2013-08-21 19:27:16 UTC 
Can you upload it to dropbox or something?
Comment 2 Tim-Philipp Müller 2015-09-10 20:18:32 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment.
Thanks!

(Note that the first couple of MB are usually enough to demonstrate the problem.)