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totem package

Totem should handle '.wvx' extension

Bug #45982 reported by Paul Sladen
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totem (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Totem actually plays this file fine if it is opened manually. Appears to be a variation and yet-another-entension for '.asx'.

$ head -1 /tmp/baa.wvx
<asx version="3.0">
$ file /tmp/baa.wvx
/tmp/baa.wvx: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Are you sure it's not just a misnamed file?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Is that totem-gstreamer or totem-xine? How do you try to open the file? From nautilus? Could you describe the issue you face? Do you have a small example to attach to the bug or an URL do download one to point?

Changed in totem:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

Changed in totem:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Googling for "baa.wvx", this might have been when the the A380 visited Heathrow for trials. 'BAA' is the British Airports Authority (now owned by the Spanish). I found the URL:

  http://82.108.51.234/baa/baa.wvx

which returns the full XML description. The streaming must have just been for that week/day as the actual mms:// URI's referenced in the XML no longer work.

With 'avisynth.dll', mplayer and xine seem happy parsing this. For totem I appear to have the 'totem-xine' one currently installed:

  $ dpkg -l | awk '/totem-(gstreamer|xine)/{print$1,$2}'
  rc totem-gstreamer
  ii totem-xine

Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in totem:
status: Rejected → Needs Info
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Stephen English (engie) wrote :

On edgy with totem-gstreamer I tried to use the wvx files available at http://www.wsa.soton.ac.uk/choosing-wsa/streaming-video/default.asp

There was no player known for this file. I have the necessary codecs for windows media player, so browsing to /usr/bin/totem in firefox caused totem to fire up and it worked fine.

The file is a redirect to a windows media file:

<ASX version = "3.0">
  <ENTRY>
    <REF HREF = "mms://mms.soton.ac.uk/art_fashion/fashion2005_390k.wmv"/>
  </ENTRY>
</ASX>

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=WVX lists the mime type as video/x-ms-wvx

As totem parses this it should be added to the system mime listings.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the video starts on feisty, might have been fixed with the mozilla plugin fixes from the new version

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Does anybody still have the problem with Feisty?

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Clicking on the link above opens a video window within Firefox (good).
Saving the link to the desktop and double-clicking opens Totem (also good).

Double result.

Changed in totem:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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