Description of problem: In Xfce DE, unable to playback .avi or .mp4 files. Parole media player advises "the stream is taking too much time to load" mplayer presents a white screen, gnome player presents a window with user controls with "loading..." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia-6-sta1-i586-DVD.iso DATE.txt: Fri May 20 15:04:58 CEST 2016 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.install Xfce only DE from above .iso, reboot 2.login and set online repos and update to latest. 3.locate an .avi or .mp4 file and attempt to play using Gnome player, Mplayer or Parole media player . 4. see above description of problem for outcomes
Created attachment 7920 [details] Parole "the stream is taking too much time to load"
Keywords: (none) => 6sta1
Created attachment 7921 [details] output of lspcidrake -v
Created attachment 7922 [details] list of updates packages
Created attachment 7923 [details] LXDE updates before the updates, mplayer would load and play .mp4 file. after updates, mplayer just presents a black screen when loafing the same .mp4
Summary: [6sta1] Xfce video players fail to load .av1 or .mp4 files => [6sta1]LXDE, Xfce video players fail to load .av1 or .mp4 files after update
also unable to close mplayer with (X) button, need to close via task manager => kill
attempting to open .mp4 file with xine results in: @localhost ~]$ xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.9. (c) 2000-2014 The xine Team. Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory vo_vdpau: Can't create vdp device : No vdpau implementation. xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. Aborted (core dumped)
Created attachment 7924 [details] gnome updates also affects video player in Gnome
Summary: [6sta1]LXDE, Xfce video players fail to load .av1 or .mp4 files after update => [6sta1]LXDE, Xfce,gnome video players fail to load .av1 or .mp4 files after update
Created attachment 7925 [details] 6in1 plasma update before this update video player were ok after this update, no video player will play .mp4 files
Summary: [6sta1]LXDE, Xfce,gnome video players fail to load .av1 or .mp4 files after update => [6sta1]regression, video players fail to load .avi or .mp4 files after update
Do you have task-codec-video (tainted) and task-codec-audio (tainted) installed?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: (none) => marja11
(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #9) > Do you have task-codec-video (tainted) and task-codec-audio (tainted) > installed? Package task-codec-audio-4-9.mga6.tainted.i586 is already installed Package task-codec-video-4-9.mga6.tainted.i586 is already installed
(In reply to ben mcmonagle from comment #6) > attempting to open .mp4 file with xine results in: > > @localhost ~]$ xine > This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.9. > (c) 2000-2014 The xine Team. > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory > vo_vdpau: Can't create vdp device : No vdpau implementation. > xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. > Aborted (core dumped) update system and xine now behaves- mplayer did not improve
Assinging to XFCE maintainer, because this was only reported for an XFCE-only install.
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa
the following players are affected: gnomeplayer mplayer totem player the above players have been tested in the following desktops: LXDE Mate Cinnamon Xine is affected OOTB, but after updating the system, is no longer affected Added VLC to Cinnamon after updating, loads .mp4 file and plays ok
and also Parole player in Xfce
Is this bug still valid for 6sta2?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOSummary: [6sta1]regression, video players fail to load .avi or .mp4 files after update => regression, video players fail to load .avi or .mp4 files after update
(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #15) > Is this bug still valid for 6sta2? fixed
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED