Bug#589749: nautilus: Audio preview of CD tracks fails if totem is not installed

Tue Jul 20 18:56:34 UTC 2010

On 2010-07-20, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 20 juillet 2010 à 17:57 +0200, Olivier Tilloy a écrit :
>> To perform audio preview, Nautilus uses totem-audio-preview. If not
>> present (i.e. if totem is not installed), it falls back on
>> gst-launch-0.10 with a playbin pipeline. Unfortunately playbin doesn't
>> understand the cdda:// URIs when trying to preview tracks on an audio
>> CD.
> 
> I’m not sure I understand the implication of what the patch does. Does
> it systematically convert the cdda:// URI into a file:// one,
> automatically ripping the CD? Or does it rely on gvfs-fuse?

It relies on gvfs-fuse to convert the cdda:// URIs to something that
looks like file://$HOME/.gvfs/...

Note that the patch merely copies the way totem does it (see
http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/tree/src/backend/bacon-video-widget-gst-0.10.c#n3637).