Bug 31048

Summary:	Videos (Totem) does not correctly play some multimedia files
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	GNOME maintainers <gnome>
Status:	REOPENED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	totem-43.0-1.mga9.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ben McMonagle 2022-10-30 03:26:49 CET

Description of problem: in a Mate DE only install,  attempting to play multimedia files with .m4v, .mp4, .webm, .mkv results in audio but no video. .wma playback is not possible.
VLC plays these files without issue.

system is updated with tainted repos enabled and  task-audio and task-video codecs are installed


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-9-alpha1-i586.iso
DATE.txt: Sat Oct 29 07:46:39 PM CEST 2022


How reproducible:Mageia-9-alpha1-i586.iso
DATE.txt: Sat Oct 29 07:46:39 PM CEST 2022always


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Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2022-10-30 03:31:06 CET

see bug 31010

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 31010 ***

Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 2 Ben McMonagle 2023-01-01 09:13:41 CET

reopening as issue is still valid for Videos /Totem under Mate DE only install.
beta1 .iso 30/12/2022.

have closed bug 31010 as xplayer in cinnamon DE only install has been resolved when installed from same .iso

Resolution: DUPLICATE => (none)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2023-01-17 20:37:10 CET

Can you please re-define formats, video at least, that you know work or do not with 'Videos/Totem'. I doubt that the desktop matters for this.
You have noted this for i586; unless you can try also x64, I will (although I only have .mp4 & .webm examples; point (or send to) me to other formats).

I do not think we should get bogged down in what it does with audio formats; we know that it gets auto-assigned to these on some desktops, but this is anomolous & needs correcting. It is described as:
Summary     : Movie player for GNOME
Description :
Totem is simple movie player for the GNOME desktop. It
features a simple playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume
controls, as well as a pretty complete keyboard navigation.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 4 Ben McMonagle 2023-01-19 09:44:13 CET

things have changed a little.

.webm does play: youtube-dl https://youtu.be/Z4C82eyhwgU

.mkv  does play: youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-rmzh0PI3c


video of these 2 file types does not play: 

.m4v 

.mp4 : youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBazHpnPd2I

audio of file plays.

converting either of the .webm or .mkv that do play to .m4v or .mp4 via Handbrake, KDEnlive or VLC does not result in a playable file.

Comment 5 Lewis Smith 2023-01-19 19:40:53 CET

Thanks for your tests. Converting the baddies to goodies?
Never mind.
Assigning to the Gnome gurus. This SRPM has had various packagers.

Assignee: bugsquad => gnome
Source RPM: (none) => totem-43.0-1.mga9.src.rpm
CC: lewyssmith => (none)

Comment 6 Ben McMonagle 2023-04-01 09:41:45 CEST

this issue seems to be hardware specific.

Live or install from:
Mageia-9-beta2-Live-GNOME-x86_64.iso
DATE.txt: Wed Mar 29 08:48:26 PM CEST 2023

Asus U31F (Bios)- no play of any multimedia file.

both these play the same multimedia files without issue:
Acer B113 Travelmate (UEFI)
Toshiba L650 (Bios)

Comment 7 Ben McMonagle 2023-04-23 04:21:00 CEST

beta 2 cinnamon i586.

again, some multimedia files will not play  "Xplayer*

m4v, m4a, mp4 (audio, no video), wma.

webm, mkv play fine