Ubuntu
gst-plugins-base0.10 package

requires a restart to use the newly installed codecs

Bug #450946 reported by Bryan Donlan
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This bug affects 12 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Totem
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gst-plugins-base
Fix Released
Medium
gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Robert Ancell

Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

When playing back a h264/AAC video file, totem popped up the automatic plugin installer. After installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, it claimed that the packages were installed, but the requested codecs were not included. However after restarting totem, the video played back fine.

Totem should not claim the codecs are not included without first reloading its mime-type database after installing new plugin packages. Or it should restart (or request that the user restart it) rather than making the user think the operation failed outright.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 13 23:51:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

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Bryan Donlan (bdonlan) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Automatic plugin installation falsely claims that plugin does not
- provide needed filters
+ requires a restart to use newly installed codecs
summary: - requires a restart to use newly installed codecs
+ requires a restart to use the newly installed codecs
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Robert, do you think you could have a look to that one?

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

The issue seems to be that gnome-codec-install says:

Packages successfully installed
The selected packages were successfully installed but did not provide all requested plugins

which appears to make totem blacklist this plugin. On restart it does find the plugin and works.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Ignore comment 4. Confirmed this worked in 2.26 and does not appear to have worked in 2.27 onwards.

Changed in totem:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)
affects: totem (Ubuntu) → gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
Changed in totem:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: Unknown → New
status: New → Invalid
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This should be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04 now. Thanks for reporting.

Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gst-plugins-base:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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