Bug 446384 – media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23 - unable to play mp4 files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description barrie backhurst 2012-12-07 19:54:51 UTC]

After upgrading to gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23, trying to play mp4 files in KDE with phonon-gstreamer as the backend results in a black window. It matches these reports

http://flavio.tordini.org/forums/topic/gstreamer-bug-affecting-ubuntu-12-04-and-other-recent-linux-distributions

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/973014

the hack/fix suggested works and I have confirmed this on 2 machines

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set gstreamer as the kde phonon backend
2.update gst-plugins-bad to 0.10.23
3.try to play mp4 file in dragonplayer
Actual Results:  
no video or sound, just a black window

Expected Results:  
video plays

[Comment 1 barrie backhurst 2012-12-07 19:57:34 UTC]

Created attachment 331750 [details]
my emerge -info output

add emerge info

[Comment 2 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2012-12-08 08:58:09 UTC]

Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed in 0.10.23-r1.

>*gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23-r1 (08 Dec 2012)
>
>  08 Dec 2012; Alexandre Rostovtsev <[e-mail]>
>  +gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23-r1.ebuild:
>  Add upstream patches fixing h264 baseline video decoding failure (bug
>  #446384, thanks to barrie backhurst).