[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 584441] New: rethink playbin2's policiy of dealing with suburi streams that come with unknown encodings

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | Ver: git
           Summary: rethink playbin2's policiy of dealing with suburi
                    streams that come with unknown encodings
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-base
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: andreas.frisch at multimedia-labs.de
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


Please describe the problem:
i find it unsatisfying that when adding a suburi srt subtitle file to a
playbin2 pipeline, the playback will fail to preroll in case the srt file has a
non-utf8 character set. i work on the dreambox again, with our minimal embedded
linux environment and we only ship the distro with utf and 8859-15 gconv
charmaps.
when having an srt file in cp1250 encoding i get the described problem, even if
cp1250 gconv table is installed.


Steps to reproduce:
gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///media/hdd/movie/avi/coa-dragonevo-xvid.avi
suburi=file:///media/hdd/movie/avi/coa-dragonevo-xvid.srt


Actual results:
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element
/GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin1/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/GstTypeFindElement:typefind:
Could not determine type of stream.
Additional debug info:
gsttypefindelement.c(888): gst_type_find_element_activate ():
/GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin1/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/GstTypeFindElement:typefind
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...


Expected results:
i'd be happy if the playback would start anyways, ignoring the undeterminable
text stream and maybe posting a message on the bus

Does this happen every time?
yes, even though
root at dm8000:/media/hdd/movie/avi# ipkg list_installed | grep 1250
glibc-charmap-cp1250 - 2.3.5+cvs20051107-r0 -
glibc-gconv-cp1250 - 2.3.5+cvs20051107-r0 -
and also with specifying "subtitle-encoding=CP1250"

Other information:
actual srt file to be uploaded


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