[gst-devel] MP4 video does not play with totem but no problem with VLC

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:19 +0100, Vincent wrote:
> Hi gents,
> 
> I met an issue with some MP4 video recorded during holidays: Shotwell
> cannot display a cover for these movies and totem cannot play it
> ("impossible to determine the type of flux")... However, VLC read it
> without any problems... Can anyone which has some knowledge in MP4
> decoding can have a look to one of these video to try to explain why I
> meet this issue? Shotwell developers tell me to ask on this list which
> seems to be more appropriate for this kind of problems.
> 
> I have uploaded the video here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/XHX/

Your best bet is to try and reproduce the problem with gst-launch, and
see if the problem occurs there. See:
http://projects.gnome.org/totem/#bugs

Then file a bug against GStreamer if you can reproduce the problem, or
against Totem if you cannot.

FWIW, I could not play the file:
$ file shotwell-broken-file.mp4 
shotwell-broken-file.mp4: gzip compressed data, max compression
$ mv shotwell-broken-file.mp4 shotwell-broken-file.mp4.gz
$ gunzip shotwell-broken-file.mp4.gz 

gzip: shotwell-broken-file.mp4.gz: invalid compressed data--format
violated

Cheers