Totem playlists look for files in home directory instead of playlist directory

Bug #42333 reported by Pascal De Vuyst
22
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Totem
Fix Released
Medium
totem (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I'm using dapper 20060501
totem-xine 1.4.0-0ubuntu5

I have some videos on my desktop in ogg format.
I created a playlist of them in totem and saved this playlist to the desktop.
When I close totem and click on the playlist on my desktop I'm unable to play the videos. I'm getting this error:
Totem could not play 'file:///home/pascal/transparancy.ogg'.
The specified movie could not be found.
This error indicates that totem looks in /home/pascal while it should look in /home/pascal/Desktop.
I'm using totem-xine but I have the same error with totem-gstreamer too.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download a few videos (e.g. mpg or ogg from http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/) and save them on the desktop (in my case /home/pascal/Desktop).
2. Open these videos with totem and create a playlist of them.
3. Save the playlist on the desktop.
4. Close totem.
5. Click the playlist on the desktop.

Revision history for this message
Gary Coady (garycoady) wrote :

Totem creates the playlists with relative URLs, so the current working directory needs to be the same as when the playlist was created.

Changed in totem:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Maybe the same as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338974 which is fixed upstream?

Revision history for this message
Gary Coady (garycoady) wrote :

I don't think so - I've opened a bug on the issue upstream.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you Gary for forwarding it

Changed in totem:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

that bug has been fixed for dapper and edgy, marking as fixed

Changed in totem:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in totem:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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