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Bug 705738 - Gst-vaapi fails to play .mp4 (x264) files
Gst-vaapi fails to play .mp4 (x264) files
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gstreamer-vaapi
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gstreamer-vaapi maintainer(s)
gstreamer-vaapi maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-08-09 19:56 UTC by Mark Lee
Modified: 2015-06-19 11:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Back trace of totem with gst-vaapi while trying to play a .mp4 file (928 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2013-08-09 19:56 UTC, Mark Lee 		Details
gdb totem gstreamer-vaapi info-threads trace (1.67 KB, application/octet-stream)
2013-08-09 19:57 UTC, Mark Lee 		Details
strace of totem while trying to playback a .mp4 file (54.88 KB, application/x-xz)
2013-08-13 05:57 UTC, Mark Lee 		Details
GDB back trace with debugging symbols for glib2, cogl, clutter-gst, and totem (4.45 KB, text/plain)
2013-08-13 06:45 UTC, Mark Lee 		Details

Description Mark Lee 2013-08-09 19:56:49 UTC 
Created attachment 251257 [details]
Back trace of totem with gst-vaapi while trying to play a .mp4 file

Totem fails to play x264 files on Arch Linux 64 bit. See attached for my gdb backtrace and infothreads..
Comment 1 Mark Lee 2013-08-09 19:57:29 UTC 
Created attachment 251258 [details]
gdb totem gstreamer-vaapi info-threads trace
Comment 2 Gwenole Beauchesne 2013-08-13 04:40:20 UTC 
Please provide a stack trace with the debugging symbols. Thanks.

What versions of clutter-gst and cogl do you have?
Comment 3 Mark Lee 2013-08-13 05:51:23 UTC 
Clutter-gst  2.0.6-1
cogl          1.14.0-4

I have attached an strace of totem trying to run an mp4 file.
Comment 4 Mark Lee 2013-08-13 05:57:35 UTC 
Created attachment 251442 [details]
strace of totem while trying to playback a .mp4 file

Bugzilla said the file was too large so I compressed into a .tar.xz archive
Command used :
totem -o totem.strace totem *Incredibles*.mp4
Comment 5 Mark Lee 2013-08-13 06:45:13 UTC 
Created attachment 251443 [details]
GDB back trace with debugging symbols for glib2, cogl, clutter-gst, and totem
Comment 6 Mark Lee 2013-08-13 06:45:56 UTC 
Attached gdb backtrace with debugging symbols.
Comment 7 Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal 2015-01-20 11:14:39 UTC 
Do you still observe the failure in recent version of gstreamer-vaapi / totem? If so, could you provide a backtrace with the gstreamer and gstreamer-vaapi symbols?
Comment 8 sreerenj 2015-06-19 11:40:37 UTC 
I am closing this as obsolete, please reopen if issue persists.