As per AG's comment this is fixed in Lucid. ** Also affects: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided Status: New
** Changed in: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Description changed: Even though the kate decoder plugin is installer it is not detected by gstreamer and/or dependent applications. The file I was trying to play is at [1]. on...@ibook:~$ gst-inspect-0.10 katedec|head -35 (gst-inspect-0.10:28957): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times Factory Details: - Long name: Kate stream text decoder - Class: Codec/Decoder/Subtitle - Description: Decodes Kate text streams - Author(s): Vincent Penquerc'h <ogg.k.og...@googlemail.com> - Rank: none (0) + Long name: Kate stream text decoder + Class: Codec/Decoder/Subtitle + Description: Decodes Kate text streams + Author(s): Vincent Penquerc'h <ogg.k.og...@googlemail.com> + Rank: none (0) Plugin Details: - Name: kate - Description: Kate plugin - Filename: /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstkate.so - Version: 0.10.14 - License: LGPL - Source module: gst-plugins-bad - Binary package: GStreamer Bad Plugins (Ubuntu) - Origin URL: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad0.10 + Name: kate + Description: Kate plugin + Filename: /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstkate.so + Version: 0.10.14 + License: LGPL + Source module: gst-plugins-bad + Binary package: GStreamer Bad Plugins (Ubuntu) + Origin URL: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad0.10 GObject - +----GstObject - +----GstElement - +----GstKateDec + +----GstObject + +----GstElement + +----GstKateDec Pad Templates: - SINK template: 'sink' - Availability: Always - Capabilities: - subtitle/x-kate + SINK template: 'sink' + Availability: Always + Capabilities: + subtitle/x-kate - SRC template: 'src' - Availability: Always - Capabilities: - text/plain - text/x-pango-markup - video/x-dvd-subpicture - + SRC template: 'src' + Availability: Always + Capabilities: + text/plain + text/x-pango-markup + video/x-dvd-subpicture Here is the output I get when trying to play the file with subtitles in kate format using playbin. on...@ibook:~/programs$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=file:///home/onkar/Desktop/Stephen_Fry-Happy_Birthday_GNU-nq_600px_425kbit.ogv (gst-launch-0.10:23528): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is PREROLLING ... WARNING: from element /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: No decoder available for type 'subtitle/x-kate'. Additional debug info: gsturidecodebin.c(627): unknown_type_cb (): /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0 WARNING: from element /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: No decoder available for type 'subtitle/x-kate'. Additional debug info: gsturidecodebin.c(627): unknown_type_cb (): /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0 Pipeline is PREROLLED ... Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... New clock: GstPulseSinkClock - - Also find attached the screenshot of totem's plugin search when I try to play the file. + Also find attached the screenshot of totem's plugin search when I try to + play the file. The problem seems to be because katedec does not have a rank assigned. Hence playbin does not automatically plug the decoder. This was changed in upstream git at [2]. If someone can confirm that this works in latest updated Lucid, I will work on SRU for karmic. [1] http://stallman.org/fry/Stephen_Fry-Happy_Birthday_GNU-nq_600px_425kbit.ogv [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/?id=23e07bc1974bfa67878013fe7325eb60b0b757ab ProblemType: Bug Architecture: powerpc Date: Mon Mar 8 23:56:02 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.14-4ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: - LANG=en_IN - SHELL=/bin/bash + LANG=en_IN + SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-powerpc SourcePackage: gst-plugins-bad0.10 Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-powerpc ppc + + + SRU Justification: Makes kate decoder element in gstreamer useless for + normal use. -- kate decoder not detected even though it is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/534561 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs