Bug#668109: Bug #668109: gstreamer: shuffle mode - ogg and flac files freeze at 0:00

[Andres Cimmarusti]

retitle 668109 gstreamer: playback stops when transitioning to ogg or flac
tags 668109 + patch
thanks

On 12/02/2012 11:39 PM, YunQiang Su wrote:
> It seems that Ubuntu precise has no this problem.
> Maybe we can find different these 2 version.

You are correct. The ubuntu precise changelog for the 
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base package shows this last entry:

gst-plugins-base0.10 (0.10.36-1ubuntu0.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

   * debian/patches/git_timestamps_discard_issue.patch:
     - "don't discard timestamps when consecutive input buffers have
        the same ts", should fix playback pausing on mp3 to ogg
        transitions in rhythmbox (lp: #921071)

  -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:39:25 +0200

Perhaps this patch can be also applied to the debian source. However, 
it's unclear if this patch fixes the transition from mp3 or ogg to flac.

See:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-base0.10/+bug/921071

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-base0.10/+bug/1026678

It would seem the best to do is to what Christoph said and revert the 
bad commit. Or wait for the gstreamer developers to fix it (as they have 
responded here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680252)