Issue with decodebin element

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 05:19 -0800, Baby Octopus wrote:

Hi,

> When I try to decode an mpeg interlaced elementary stream with the following
> pipeline
> 
> gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/mnt/hgfs/d/test/libav/carrace.m2v !
> decodebin ! filesink location=/mnt/hgfs/d/test/libav/carrace.yuv
> 
> I get following error
> */GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstTypeFindElement:typefind.GstPad:src:
> caps = video/x-h263
> Missing element: H.263 decoder*
> 
> Not sure why typefind is finding this as an H263 stream
> 
> Interestingly, the following pipeline works perfectly
> 
> gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/mnt/hgfs/d/test/libav/carrace.m2v !
> mpegvideoparse ! avdec_mpeg2video ! filesink
> location=/mnt/hgfs/d/test/libav/carrace.yuv
> 
> Is there a genuine issue here?

Yes. It looks like a typefinding issue. Could you make the file
available somewhere and file a bug in bugzilla please?

Cheers 
 -Tim