Bug 327739

Summary:	media-sound/phonon with media-libs/xine-lib backend does not support seeking in flac files
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nikoli <nikoli>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	Wizzleby
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nikoli 2010-07-11 02:23:48 UTC

xine backend does not support seeking flac files, but gstreamer does.
P.S. It was reported that for some flac files seeking worked fine with xine backend.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install amarok and phonon with xine backend
2. play http://ff123.net/samples/1.flac
3. try to seek

Comment 1 Nikoli 2010-07-11 02:31:48 UTC

Tested versions:
media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.18.1  USE="X a52 aac alsa css dts flac imagemagick ipv6 mad mng modplug musepack nls opengl speex theora truetype v4l vcd vorbis wavpack xcb xv -aalib (-altivec) -directfb -dxr3 -esd -fbcon -gnome -gtk -jack -libcaca -mmap -oss -pulseaudio (-real) -samba -sdl (-vidix) (-vis) (-win32codecs) -xinerama -xvmc"
media-sound/phonon-4.4.1-r1  USE="alsa gstreamer xcb xine (-aqua) -debug -pulseaudio" 0 kB
kde-base/phonon-kde-4.4.4  USE="alsa xine* (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)"

media-sound/amarok-2.3.1-r1  USE="cdda embedded mtp opengl player semantic-desktop utils -daap -debug -ipod (-kdeenablefinal) -lastfm -mp3tunes"
media-sound/tepsonic-9999  USE="sqlite -lastfm -mysql"

Comment 2 Ai Locke Shinseiko (Wizzleby) 2010-07-11 02:48:37 UTC

Confirming that this bug is present (for certain flac files, the posted test-case included), in phonon-9999 as well

Comment 3 Nikoli 2010-07-11 21:02:48 UTC

Answer from amarok developer (at #phonon):
[12:51:28] <markey> Nikoli: Wizzleby: that's a limitation of xine itself, it needs "seek points" for doing that (can be added with the tool metaflac)
[12:51:38] <markey> other frameworks don't have this issue
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[Whois] markey is markey!~markey@amarok/developer/markey (Mark Kretschmann)

Comment 4 Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov (mva) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-11 21:22:24 UTC

Vote +1

Comment 5 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-11 22:54:31 UTC

Let's see if / how upstream reacts. It seems the bug has been sitting for over 8 months now.

I fear our option only option might be to change the phonon backend as it seems the xine backend is dying.

Comment 6 Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) archtester

2011-02-07 10:21:33 UTC

vlc backend is the default one since phonon 4.4.4, I'll resolve this as WONTFIX, please reopen if you encounter it again with vlc. thanks