Ubuntu
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package

playbin can't create pipelines for flash videos

Bug #62719 reported by James A. Morrison
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gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base

The following line will play the attached video
gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=latenight.flv ! ffdemux_flv name=demuxer demuxer. ! queue ! ffdec_flv ! xvimagesink demuxer. ! queue ! mad ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! alsasink

but
gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/jim/Desktop/latenight.flv

prints out
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-flv
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
ERROR: from element /playbin0: You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins.
Additional debug info:
gstplaybasebin.c(1663): prepare_output (): /playbin0
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

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James A. Morrison (jim-morrison) wrote :
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James A. Morrison (jim-morrison) wrote :

ffplay can play this video without any issues, or special command line arguments.

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

This is already fixed upstream and we will get the fix with the next gst-ffmpeg release soon...

Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Fixed now in feisty

Changed in gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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