Bug 525286

Summary:	Phonon's Gstreamer backend can't handle files with spaces in their names
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Stephan Kleine <bitdealer>
Component:	KDE4 Workspace	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	aj, binner, forgotten_vXTZVacoSi, gp, wstephenson
Version:	Factory
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Description Stephan Kleine 2009-07-26 02:54:25 UTC

AFAIK the "FLAC" codec is FOSS and IIRC 11.2 in vbox played those tings some time ago. However, after having installed M4 on a physical workstation (read as non vm) 
and having applied all outstanding updates Amarok doesn't play them. It says "playing "whatever" ..." put there's no sound.

Can neither be hardware nor a principal issue since I'm able to watch any youtube videos with sound.

Comment 1 Stephan Kleine 2009-08-17 19:49:13 UTC

FWIW: I just noticed that this has to be somehow gstreamer related because it works just fine after installing phonon-backend-xine and switching phonon to use xine while it still doesn´t work if phonon is set to use gstreamer.

Comment 2 Stephan Kleine 2009-08-17 20:18:49 UTC

The problem is that gstreamer apparently can´t hand spaces in file names. As soon as I renamed the file from "foo bar.flac" into "foo.flac" it get´s played just fine in amarok with gstreamer backend.

Comment 3 Stephan Kleine 2009-08-17 20:52:33 UTC

Banshee can handle playing flacs with spaces in the names. Also it is possible to play those from CLI with "gst-launch filesrc location=foo\ bar.flac ! flacdec ! osssink".

Further Kaffeine isn´t able to play files with spaces in the name if the Gstreamer backend is selected while it works with the Xine one. Also it doesn´t show any progress / time while this works just fine with Xine.

Therefore the bug might be in the phonon gstreamer backend.

See also http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=115&t=74432 which confirms this.

Comment 4 Stephan Kleine 2009-08-17 20:53:33 UTC

This has been fixed upstream:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189898#c23

Comment 5 Stephan Kleine 2009-08-17 20:57:44 UTC

Reopened because the above mentioned fix is only for Amarok and not the phonon backend where the real issue apparently is so it wont help Kaffeine et al.

Comment 6 Stephan Binner 2009-08-18 05:54:07 UTC

Fixed for Amarok. Kaffeine/Juk/Dragon resp. phonon fix pending...

Comment 8 Will Stephenson 2009-12-14 12:52:02 UTC

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189898 says it's fixed, finding out if we have that commit already...

Comment 9 Andreas Jaeger 2009-12-14 13:47:52 UTC

Will, will you take over the bug and take care of an online update, please?

Comment 10 Guy Lunardi 2010-01-20 13:38:24 UTC

Bonjour Will, were you able to confirm that it was actually fixed upstream?

Comment 11 Will Stephenson 2010-01-20 22:50:49 UTC

I have it working on updated 11.2 (Qt 4.6 Phonon as to be shipped on SP1) _outside_ Amarok, but I haven't yet found why or where it was fixed.

Comment 12 Forgotten User vXTZVacoSi 2011-02-20 20:24:27 UTC

What is the current status of this?
It works on opensuse 11.4rc1 on amarok with the phonon-gstreamer backend.

Comment 13 Will Stephenson 2015-09-11 10:20:55 UTC

Mass-closing all my openSUSE bug reports for old openSUSE version.