[Bug 973014] Re: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, (libgstvideoparsersbad.so), causes a failure to decode many common video files encoded as AVC 1 Baseline - L2.1, Baseline - L1.1 & others

[Marc Deslauriers]

Although Ubuntu-Sponsors is subscribed to this bug, there doesn't seem
to be any actionable items here.

Since this package is in universe, it is community-supported.

For this fix to get into Precise, someone has to:

1- Create a merge request or a debdiff to get the appropriate fix into Quantal. Since Quantal is past feature freeze, and the same version of gst-plugins-bad0.10 is in Quantal, the bug most likely will exist there also.
2- Create a merge request or a debdiff to get the same fix SRUed into Precise. Once the fix has been accepted into Quantal, it can be included in Precise.

I am unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors for now. Please resubscribe the
ubuntu-sponsors group once a debdiff has been attached to this bug and
it will be handled promptly.

Thanks!

** Also affects: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu Quantal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, (libgstvideoparsersbad.so), causes a
  failure to decode many common video files encoded as AVC 1 Baseline -
  L2.1, Baseline - L1.1 & others

Status in The GStreamer Multimedia Framework:
  Fix Released
Status in “gst-plugins-bad0.10” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “gst-plugins-bad0.10” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “gst-plugins-bad0.10” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed
Status in “gst-plugins-bad0.10” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  *Adjusted description so as not to show as email to non logged in people
  Most affected files are   Baseline at L2.1, Baseline at L1.1 *

  Those would be the most likely to fail to be decoded but certainly  not limited to kust them.
  These files are commonly found online though many users will have locally.
  Also affected  other than totem, totem youtube plugin, &  banshee would be the mozilla-plugin & minitube.
  Typically the audio will play with no video though sometimes neither

  *Moving libgstvideoparsersbad.so to a .bak allows decoding to take
  place on the previously affected files, but *is not the recommended
  fix*

  Upstream has provided a commit to fix in both gstreamer 1.0 & .10 (gst-plugins-bad0.10.23
  Attached below is a patch taken from the 0.10.23 commit to be applied to 0.10.22 that's currently used in 12.04

  Also attached is a cut small sample file, noting the file plays fine in all non gstreamer players & in all gstreamer players in 11.10 & earlier
  The file should be playable in totem, banshee & firefox with totem-mozilla plugin installed but only audio is decoded

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic-pae 3.2.13
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Apr  3 21:33:08 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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