[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 526173] New: typefind fail to detect mpeg stream whereas mplayer plays it properly

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | Ver: HEAD CVS
           Summary: typefind fail to detect mpeg stream whereas mplayer
                    plays it properly
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-base
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: kapil at fluendo.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: 2.9/2.10
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


Please describe the problem:
typefind is unable to detect mpeg elementary streams that doesnt have the
sequence header ie 0x000001b3  as first 4 bytes of the stream.

Steps to reproduce:
1.any mpeg elementary stream in which first 4 bytes are not 0x000001b3. 
2.GST_DEBUG=2 gst-launch -v filesrc location=elementary_stream.mpeg ! decodebin
! fakesink

Actual results:
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
0:00:00.604053000 24294 0x804e070 WARN              GST_PADS
gstpad.c:674:gst_pad_set_active:<typefind:sink> Failed to activate pad
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/dec/typefind: Could not determine type of
stream.
Additional debug info:
gsttypefindelement.c(737): gst_type_find_element_activate ():
/pipeline0/dec/typefind
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

Expected results:
typefind should detect the stream as mpeg

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:


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