Ubuntu
gstreamer0.10 package

Cannot play BBC Live TMS Scorecard

Bug #131286 reported by Russel Winder
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GStreamer
Expired
Medium
gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The BBC provide a live cricket commentary and scoreboard. As at 2007-08-09 12:50 the URL was

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/sol/newsid_6160000/newsid_6162500?redirect=6162564.stm&news=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1

If I have totem-gstreamer installed then the feed fails to play. If I install totem-xine instead then everything works fine.

I have Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is installed.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I can't test it because it doesn't allow me to connect to the URL is there another page where i can do the test?

Changed in totem:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Incomplete
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Russel Winder (russel) wrote :

Unfortunately, a specific URL only exists whilst the game being reported is actually being played. So testing can only happen when a game is being reported. (The BBC pipe their radio commentary and an information display feed to a game specific URL.) Fortunately, the BBC are always reporting on some game, as long as one is being played somewhere, so it is a question of going to the main cricket page and then finding the currently in use URL.

I haven't tried them with the GStreamer version to see if they exhibit the same problems, they appear to work fine under the Xine version, but the BBC do have various video/audio articles on the sport main page (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport). Again specific URLs change on a daily basis but there is always something there.

The BBC help page is currently: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/video_and_audio/help_guide/4304501.stm, but I guess this might change as well :-)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in totem:
status: Incomplete → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That looks like a gstreamer issue, I've sent it upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471165

Changed in gstreamer0.10:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gstreamer:
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gstreamer:
status: New → Invalid
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Changed in gstreamer:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Invalid → Expired
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