Bug#668837: Re: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good: GStreamer stops decoding in the middle of a flac

[Anton Eliasson]

2012-06-06 00:52, Jason Rhinelander skrev:
> I'm seeing the same issue (though I can't distribute the FLAC in 
> question), using the latest sid version (0.10.31-3).
>
> I did a little more debugging on this; using gstreamer0.10-tools, this 
> command reproduces the error, with the gstreamer debugging suggesting 
> a problem:
>
> gst-launch-0.10 --gst-debug-level=2 filesrc 
> location=10-machinae_supremacy-cryosleep.flac ! flacparse ! flacdec ! 
> pulsesink
>
> Just before the track finishes prematurely, there's this:
>
> 0:00:58.040476180  4864      0x148dad0 WARN flacparse 
> gstflacparse.c:576:gst_flac_parse_frame_header_is_valid:<flacparse0> 
> Block size is not constant
> 0:00:58.040721771  4864      0x148dad0 WARN flacdec 
> gstflacdec.c:419:gst_flac_dec_scan_got_frame:<flacdec0> Variable block 
> size FLAC unsupported
> 0:00:58.040971058  4864      0x148dad0 WARN flacparse 
> gstflacparse.c:576:gst_flac_parse_frame_header_is_valid:<flacparse0> 
> Block size is not constant
>
> The last one gets repeated a few thousand times, then playback stops. 
> For my file I get the same errors and result.  For both Anton's file 
> and my file, the FLAC has no errors or warnings when run with flac -t, 
> and plays perfectly with non-gstreamer players.
>
I get the same results as you, currently using Ubuntu 12.04 running 
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good version 0.10.31-1ubuntu1. Totem restarts at 
the beginning of the song but playback stutters after that.
> (Note that replacing the final "pulsesink" in the above command with 
> "fakesink" lets you see the errors without having to wait 58 seconds).
>
> I tried analyzing both FLAC files using ``flac -a filename.flac'', for 
> both my file and Anton's file.  The resulting .ana analysis file shows 
> that every frame except the very last one has blocksize=4096, so the 
> error appears at least misleading, perhaps indicating some flac 
> decoding or parsing error in gstreamer.
>
> I also tried installing the gstreamer1.0 packages, and trying the 
> above with gst-launch-1.0; exactly the same errors occurred.
>
> After reading Anton's suggestion that he thinks it was working a 
> couple months ago, I tried installing 0.10.30-2.1, but that still has 
> the problem (though the "Block size is not constant" error doesn't get 
> reported--that check was added upstream since then).
> Jason Rhinelander
>

I fired up a few old Ubuntu installations to test this. I could 
reproduce the issue in 11.04 using gstreamer0.10-plugins-good version 
0.10.28-0ubuntu7, though Totem acted a little differently. This time 
there were no stutter after the playback restart. However, in Ubuntu 
10.04 using gstreamer0.10-plugins-good version 0.10.21-1ubuntu3, there 
were no problems at all. Both Totem and Rhythmbox played past the 0:58 mark.

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Anton Eliasson