[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 587426] New: non fast-start mp4 streams fail to play from http locations

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | Ver: git
           Summary: non fast-start mp4 streams fail to play from http
                    locations
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          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 wanted to play a stream of german public law tv station with playbin2 but it
fails. when wget'ing the whole file and playing it locally, it works.
bilboed said the problem is a missing fast-start header.


Steps to reproduce:
1. gst-launch playbin2
uri=http://tagesschau.vo.llnwd.net/d3/video/2009/0624/TV-20090624-1330-3201.h264.mp4


Actual results:
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
WARNING: from element /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstPlaySink:playsink0: No volume
control found
Additional debug info:
gstplaysink.c(1491): gen_audio_chain ():
/GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstPlaySink:playsink0:
Volume/mute is not available
New clock: GstDVBAudioSinkClock
Got EOS from element "playbin20".
Execution ended after 357822000 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...


0:00:01.536403000  1286 0x100b6118 INFO                typefind
gsttypefindelement.c:165:gst_type_find_element_have_type:<typefind> (null)      
0:00:01.540674000  1286 0x100b6118 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux.c:2569:gst_qtdemux_chain:<qtdemux0> Unknown fourcc while parsing header
: ftyp  
0:00:14.695901000  1286 0x100b6118 WARN                 qtdemux
qtdemux.c:2569:gst_qtdemux_chain:<qtdemux0> Unknown fourcc while parsing header
: free  

Expected results:
automatically queue up the entire file, if that's necessary and then play.

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:


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