Bug#480914: segfault when playing *.m2ts file

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:39:15PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 17:39 +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > samplevideo.m2ts (md5sum 6335302ed9fccb95e792c7e5dd656e8f), obtained from
> > http://www.olmosconsulting.com/m2ts.tar.gz , makes totem segfault.
> > 
> > To make things worse, it does not segfault when run inside gdb (instead, it
> > just doesn't play anything).
>
> It seems to work here, but my system is much too slow to correctly play
> HD videos so I only get sound and a few frames of video.

It was actually not an unconditional segfault.  Probably a race being involved
(see the upstream version of this bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532820)

> Try grabbing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and possibly the other GStreamer
> packages from experimental (or wait for them to hit unstable).

Thanks.  Upgrading gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg to 0.10.3-7 improves the situation.

Now instead of segfaulting/stalling it plays sound and video, although the
video is crippled (see attached screenshot).

-- 
Robert Millan

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