[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 337609] New: can't play .flac files with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Dapper

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 GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | Ver: 0.10.2

           Summary: can't play .flac files with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Dapper
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.10.2
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-good
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: seb128 at debian.org
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36725

"I installed Rhythmbox along side with gstreamer0.10 and with all the necessary
libs (good, bad, ugly and else...) I added gstreamer0.8-flac,
libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0, libgstreamer0.8-0. Each time I play a .flac song
rhythmbox skips to the next "playable" one
...
> Thanks for your bug. Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed? Could you give an URL to download a .flac giving that issue? Does "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/the/flac" work fine?
...


Thanks for the help.

I have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed
alwright.
Here is the result of the command line:
gui at dapper:~$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin
uri=file:////home/gui/Desktop/Stranglers.flac
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: audioclock4
Got EOS from element "playbin0".
Execution ended after 761000 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...
gui at dapper:~$

I must add that the first time I launch this command, Totem openned and tried
to play the file unsuccesfully. I'll try to give you an URL for the file as
soon as possible. However all the .flac I have work fine with Ubuntu Breezy
which I know use gstreamer0.8.
...
Here's an URL where you can find a file that doesn't work (among many
others...)

http://rapidshare.de/files/17141894/filea.flac.html
...
>> What a terrible user interface. Anyway I have your file now, and indeed rhythmbox won't play it. However, if I simply decompress it and recompress it, with flac -d followed by flac, it plays fine.

filea.flac: FLAC audio bitstream data, 16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz, length unknown
fileb.flac: FLAC audio bitstream data, 16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz, 5842944
samples

Perhaps gstreamer doesn't like flac files which don't declare their length?
...
Confirmed, if I take a file of mine which plays OK, and convert it to one of
these FLAC files without length metadata, Rhythmbox refuses to play it.

Guillaume, you should be able to work around the problem trivially by
recompressing your FLAC files."


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