Bug#691620: gnome-mplayer: Hang at Caching 0% when playing http streaming audio playlist until FF

[Reinhard Tartler]

tag 691620 moreinfo
severity 691620 normal
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Dominique Brazziel <dbrazziel at snet.net> wrote:
> Package: gnome-mplayer
> Version: 1.0.6-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
>    Trying to play m3u audio playlist created by 'libapache2-mod-musicindex'
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>     Player loads large playlist then starts to cache, hangs at 0% until
>     fast forward is hit.
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    Multiple HTTP requests for non existent files (hex data) seen in
>    Apache server logs, strace shows looking for idx, ifo files, etc.
>    Only after hitting fast forward button did correct HTTP request
>    get sent for the .mp3 file named in the playlist
>    Each time the next song would come up the bad requests are sent
>    to the server and fast forward must be pressed again.

Can you please provide the m3u file?

Also, we need to be able to reproduce this problem with mplayer on the
command line. Therefore, please avoid gnome-mplayer for now and add
the option "-v" to the command line and attach the complete output of
stdout to this bug report.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard