Totem won't play ripped .wavs (GStreamer error).

rosegardener · 04-20-2010, 10:46 AM

Hello. I use dvd::rip 0.98.10 to create .wav sound files from DVDs and then play them in Totem Movie Player 2.28.2 (using GStreamer 0.10.25) mainly because I like the visualizations. It always used to work, but a recent batch will not play. I get:

GStreamer encountered a general stream error.

I probably used a more recent version of dvd::rip for the ones which don't play.

Both MPlayer and VLC Media player plays them without a problem and older rips play fine in Totem too.

The Audio/Video properties of a 'faulty' file (as shown in Nautilus) are greyed out for codec, channels etc., whereas a 'good' file shows Audio properties as Uncompressed 16-bit PCM audio etc., but running soxi on a good or bad file gives the same (good) results.

I'd like to get this working, without doing anything to the .wavs preferably, so I guess I need to do something to Gstreamer, but I'm really not sure how to proceed. I'm using Linux Mint 8 64bit (rt kernel) and very nice it is too.

Thanks, John.

rosegardener · 04-21-2010, 09:57 AM

I found that I can use gst-launch at the command line like:

Code:

gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=bad.wav ! wavparse ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! osssink

Which produces:
Additional debug info:

Code:

gstwavparse.c(1570): gst_wavparse_stream_headers (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstWavParse:wavparse0:
Stream claims av_bsp = 24000000, which is more than 192000 - invalid data

24M is a lot more than 192k!

Does that point to the source of the problem being dvd::rip perhaps?