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edgy: totem can no longer stream from samba share

Bug #61147 reported by finalbeta on 2006-09-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #60326: [edgy] gstreamer, rhythmbox won't read files over smb. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Totem	New	Unknown	gnome-bugs #359133
	totem (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

upgraded client and server to edgy.

Before: client could use totem to stream avi files from servers samba share.
Now: client gives error "totem could not play: "smb://.../....avi" could not read from resource" .

However manually copying the file thru nautilus to the client does work. After which totem plays the file just fine.

//edit:
this is totem-gstreamer
It's not only on shares. Same problem occurs when you try to view a movie from http

See original description

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finalbeta (j-greenhouse) wrote on 2006-09-20:

Did some extra tests, and windows clients can still stream from the samba share. So the problem definitely is with totem. It can no longer play avi/divx from shares.

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D B (eburner) wrote on 2006-09-20:

seconded!

finalbeta (j-greenhouse) on 2006-09-23

description:	updated
description:	updated

finalbeta (j-greenhouse) on 2006-10-02

Changed in totem:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) on 2006-10-02

Changed in totem:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-10-03

Changed in totem:
status:	Unknown → Unconfirmed

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Brian (brian-e-dugan) wrote on 2006-10-03:

I have the same problem. SSH seems to work just fine, so I have been using that. I get the error 'Could not read from resource.'

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wien (wien) wrote on 2006-10-07:

I can also confirm this problem. No gstreamer apps are able to read from my file-server's (Ubuntu Dapper) samba share. (Mounted through Gnome VFS) I can read from the same share just fine on my Dapper install.

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Greg Michalec (greg-primate) wrote on 2006-10-08:

strace output Edit (7.4 MiB, text/html)

I get the same problem, using current Edgy. I've attached the output of an strace when the problem occurs, if that helps at all. If anybody know what else can be done to further debug this, please let me know.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-10-08

Changed in totem:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-10-12

Changed in totem:
status:	Needs Info → Unconfirmed

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John Stowers (nzjrs) wrote on 2006-10-13:

yep. Confimed and very sad

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chefweb (ulrich-timm-uni-rostock) wrote on 2006-10-16:

totem always crash by streaming from ftp-shares

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Greg Michalec (greg-primate) wrote on 2006-10-25:

Is there any way we can escalate this bug? It seems like it will be a fairly big deal when edgy gets released, and people won't be able to play media off of their servers. This is a pretty nasty regression, IMHO. I'd like to help out to track down this bug, but I'm no C coder, so I don't know where to begin.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-10-25: Re: [Bug 61147] Re: edgy: totem can no longer stream from samba share

#10

Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 18:10 +0000, Greg Michalec a écrit :
> Is there any way we can escalate this bug?

what do you mean? it has already been escalated upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359133