Bug#448215: rhythmbox: chokes on radio streams that works fine in Totem

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On 10/28/07, Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 10:23 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > When playing back two Internet radio http://217.30.180.242:8000/gvfm.ogg and
> > http://83.145.201.209:8000 I only hear the short introduction message from
> > the streaming mirror provider, after which the stream chokes dead and Rhythmbox
> > reports are error.
> >
> > If I try the same streams in Totem, they work fine.
> >
> > ii  totem-gstreamer              2.16.5-3                     A simple media pl
> >
> > Since both applicatiosn use Gstreamer, my conclusion would be that Rhythmbox has
> > a programming error that incorrectly accesses the Gstreamer pipes.
> >
> > Is there any particular manipulation I can do via command line to help you find
> > out what is causing this?
>
> Hi again,
>
> This might actually be a GStreamer problem. Running
>
>         gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri="http://83.145.201.209:8000"
>
> as per the README, works fine in unstable, but seems to hang in
> unstable. I'm guessing totem uses a different method?

Come again? Hangs where and works fine where?

Here, I just upgraded everything to Testing and the pipe works fine
with both URL (don't forget the gvfm.ogg extension on the second one).

So, the above works fine to directly launch the stream, but Rhythmbox
fails, which again points to Rhythmbox incorrectly accessing
Gstreamer.

Note that in both cases, the stream starts with a snippet that says
something like "Connection for this stream courtesy of Nebula.fi" and
then continues with the next "song" which is the actual live stream.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi