[Bug 708240] New: Missing element: H.264 decoder .... sometimes

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708240
  GStreamer | gst-omx | 1.x

           Summary: Missing element: H.264 decoder .... sometimes
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 1.x
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-omx
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: pmaersk at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---


Simple pipelines for decoding mpegts encapsulated h264 streams are likely to
fail identifing a suitable decoder, or in case where the omxh264dec is
specified directly, it will sometimes fail identifing the right caps thus
refusing to decode the stream.

The likelihood of the stream not being played increases significantly as the
stream bandwidth goes up or possibly also as the video geometry increases,
though in some cases the latter lead to the first.

The problem was first reported in this email
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2013-September/042954.html
The email contains instructions for setting up pipelines to provoke the error.

This email list links to media files, where some works and others do not as
listed in the email. The production setup was liusted in the previous email.

In this email, Erik Andresen confirms the findings:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2013-September/042962.html

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