The hanging is caused by gstreamer indeed.
SoundConverter should not display stupid progress information like negative
remaining time, and should try to detect hangs, but how ?
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soundconverter makes no progress while converting from mpg
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440222
You received this
There is an undocumented --debug switch, that shows the launched pipeline:
giosrc location="file:///….mpg" name=src ! decodebin name=decoder !
audioconvert ! lame quality=2 vbr=4 vbr-quality=3 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux !
giosink location=file:///….mp3
Which (as gst-launch -v reveals) causes the hangi
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32794991/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32794992/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32794993/ProcStatus.txt
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