Ubuntu
totem package

files listed on command line are play in semi random order

Bug #659001 reported by Chris Moore
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totem (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

In a terminal, I run:

totem 00.mp4 01.mp4 02.mp4 03.mp4 04.mp4 05.mp4 06.mp4 07.mp4 08.mp4 09.mp4 10.mp4 11.mp4 12.mp4 13.mp4 14.mp4 15.mp4 16.mp4 17.mp4 18.mp4 19.mp4

to play 20 video files one after the other. I would expect them to be played in the order listed on the command line, but they're not. I see a playlist on the right of the totem window listing the files in the order they are actually played, which is not usually the same as the order I listed on the command line.

The order changes slightly each time. Currently I'm getting 00, 01, 02, 03, 07 thru' 15, 17, 18, 19, 04, 16, 05, 06.
Sometimes the order is completely correct, but mostly it isn't.

Related branches

lp:~om26er/ubuntu/natty/totem/totem-fixes
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Diff: 677 lines (+642/-0)
6 files modified
debian/changelog (+12/-0)
debian/patches/74_add_new_playlist_api.patch (+296/-0)
debian/patches/74_fix_compile.patch (+20/-0)
debian/patches/74_use_new_playlist_api.patch (+275/-0)
debian/patches/75_fix_screenshotting_of_interlaced_videos.patch (+35/-0)
debian/patches/series (+4/-0)
lp:ubuntu/natty/totem
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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote :

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

ii totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu1

Matthew Rasmus (mrasmus)
Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote :

Still happens after upgrading:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty

ii totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu3

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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote :

I just copied a bunch of video files from a camera memory stick, selected them in nautilus, right-clicked and selected "Open with Movie Player" and the same problem happened.

Checking the running processes, I see:

totem /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13156.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13157.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13158.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13159.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13160.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13161.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13162.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13163.MP4 /home/chris/Pictures/SDC13164.MP4

ie. they're listed in numerical order. But in the totem application, they're all jumbled up, and play out of order.

So this bug doesn't only affect people using the command line, but also people using nautilus.

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Edward Z. Yang (ezyang) wrote :

I can also confirm this behavior from opening files in Nautilus. I snooped the Totem source code but I didn't see anything suspicious: maybe this is a bad interaction with glib or GTK and totem?

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Edward Z. Yang (ezyang) wrote :

It looks like this is this bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636686

Can we backport the fix?

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

thanks for the bug report. the issue will be fixed in totem-3.0 upstream developers have committed into the 2.32 branch but they may or maynot make the release.

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

those commits need backporting if someone is interested to get the fix in natty:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=75f0ef09df10d3a1d6a8a3063c3258b128bc2e08
http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=a9ed336231663812c58ac0fb544d9b9a9862a90e
http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=67c4c2e07b00487391ab8b906360d3f3f09e9b84

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Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Omer Akram (om26er)
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
assignee: Omer Akram (om26er) → nobody
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.32.0-0ubuntu10

---------------
totem (2.32.0-0ubuntu10) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/74_add_new_playlist_api.patch
    debian/patches/74_use_new_playlist_api.patch:
    - Fix the DnD of files in the playlist sidepane. (LP: #659001)
  * debian/patches/74_fix_compile.patch:
    - Fix compiling after the above two patches.
  * debian/patches/75_fix_screenshotting_of_interlaced_videos.patch:
    - Take screenshot does not work for some videos. (LP: #705361)
 -- Omer Akram <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:29:09 +0500

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Roger Binns (ubuntu-rogerbinns) wrote :

Are you sure this is fixed? I am on Natty and totem version is 2.32.0-0ubuntu10 and still experiencing the problem.

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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote : Re: [Bug 659001] Re: files listed on command line are play in semi random order

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Roger Binns <email address hidden> wrote:
> Are you sure this is fixed?  I am on Natty and totem version is
> 2.32.0-0ubuntu10 and still experiencing the problem.

I also have 2.32.0-0ubuntu10 and it certainly seems fixed to me.

I run:
  totem *.MP4
and the playlist in the right-hand side panel is in the correct order,
whereas it didn't used to be.

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Mathias Gaunard (loufoque) wrote :

It's definitely not fixed here.
On top of having files in random order, certain files do not even appear!

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