Troubles while play streaming video

I can confirm this problem with several online videos.

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you attach a small video example to the bug or give a link where to download one? Does "gst-launch playbin uri=..." play that file correctly?

I've testes it for the first time on edgy.

Now I've just tested it on fresty :
$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=mms://stream1.m6.fr.ipercast.net/m6.fr/d/prisonbreak/prisonbreak_leplan_60985B.wmv
Mise du pipeline en PAUSE...
Le tube se prépare à l'ÉXÉCUTION ...
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
La pipeline est PRÉPARÉE...
Assignant le pipeline à PLAYING ...
New clock: audioclock1
Reçu EOS de l'élément "playbin0".
Execution ended after 231982574000 ns.
Mise du pipeline en PAUSE...
Assignant le pipeline à READY ...
Total Unfree 60 bytes cnt 1 [(nil),0]
Assignant le pipeline à NULL ...
LIBERATION de la pipeline ...

I've still got 1 or 2 minutes beetween lines "Assignant le pipeline à PLAYING ..." and "New clock: audioclock1" (when the file is really played).
I can't have and image with gst-launch too.

Just bellow, you can see wath happen when gstreamer-pifdll is not installed :

$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=mms://stream1.m6.fr.ipercast.net/m6.fr/d/prisonbreak/prisonbreak_leplan_60985B.wmv
Mise du pipeline en PAUSE...
Le tube se prépare à l'ÉXÉCUTION ...
La pipeline est PRÉPARÉE...
Assignant le pipeline à PLAYING ...
0:01:59.940535000 6585 0x81f6fc0 ERROR ffmpeg gstffmpegdec.c:1614:gst_ffmpegdec_frame:<ffdec_wmv30> no codec context
New clock: audioclock1
Reçu EOS de l'élément "playbin0".
Execution ended after 232501656000 ns.
Mise du pipeline en PAUSE...
Assignant le pipeline à READY ...
Assignant le pipeline à NULL ...
LIBERATION de la pipeline ...

In fact there seems to be two problems :
- while playing a mms steaming file, the file seems to be download completly before be played.
- pitfdll seems no to be actively developped, and the package is from 20060515. This package doesn't allow to play file encoded with wm3 codec as we expected it to do.

VLC is able to play the file correctly :
$ vlc mms://stream1.m6.fr.ipercast.net/m6.fr/d/prisonbreak/prisonbreak_leplan_60985B.wmv
VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus
[00000285] access_mms access: selecting stream[0x1] audio (50 kb/s)
[00000285] access_mms access: selecting stream[0x2] video (446 kb/s)
[00000285] access_mms access: ignoring stream[0x3] video (252 kb/s)
[00000285] access_mms access: connection successful
[00000277] main playlist: stopping playback

This may be same bug that http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361220

I have the same problem I think. I'm trying to watch Swedish news via the service "SVT Play". An example URL is mms://qstream-wm.qbrick.com/00928/rapport/080205rapport1930.wmv but I think all clips on SVT Play is locked to only work from Swedish IPs.

$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=mms://qstream-wm.qbrick.com/00928/rapport/080205rapport1930.wmv
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...

ERROR: from element /playbin0/vbin/videosink/videosink-actual-sink-xvimage: Output window was closed
Additional debug info:
xvimagesink.c(1223): gst_xvimagesink_handle_xevents (): /playbin0/vbin/videosink/videosink-actual-sink-xvimage
Execution ended after 79345757185 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

Before I exited the window that popped up I waited for maybe 1 minute. I can see the start frame of the clip and if I play it in totem I can see some information about the clip:

Video:
Diemnsions: 384x288
Codec: Microsoft Windows Media 9
Framerate: 50 fps
Bitrate: N/A

Audio:
Codec: WMA Version 8
Channels: Stereo
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bitrate: N/A

Also I can see that the clip buffers OK and that the clip is 29:52 long.

Confirm on hardy. Test done with $ totem mms://a988.v101995.c10199.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/988/10199/3f97c7e6/ftvigrp.download.akamai.com/10199/sgv/diff/videotheque/regions/raa/videothequeinfo/environnementnature/5BC6B_economiseuressence.wmv?WMCache=0
The first image of the video is shown, and next nothing move during the time of fully loading the video. Then the video is played normaly.

I confirm this bug on Hardy. None of the sites I've tested (mostly Swedish, like http://svt.se and http://dn.se) which use the Windows Media Codec have worked since I upgraded to Hardy.

This should be fixed in Ubuntu 9.10. Thanks for reporting.