Bug 242597

Summary:	Amarok stops if track is shorter than shown (vlc bug with ogg files)
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] phonon-backend-vlc	Reporter:	Cyril Brosch <info>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bcooksley, bugs.kde, fabo, jb, martin.sandsmark, myriam, realnc
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	0.3.1
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Cyril Brosch 2010-06-23 15:04:21 UTC

Version:           4.4.1 (KDE SC 4.4.4) (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

I filed a bug report about Phonon videolan backend not giving correct length for ogg vorbis files, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242365.
Anyhow, this is a known issue of vlc itself (open for three years now, can't they just copy the code from xine?), so there's nothing to to about it.

It's no real problem if the track is longer than shown, it just plays to the end and then the playlist moves on.
But if the track is shorter (e.g. 1:55, while Phonon says 2:00), Amarok after 1:55 will stop playing and doesn't move on to the next item in the playlist, which is very annoying.

So please, as long as the vlc bug isn't fixed, please include a workaround or so into Amarok in order not to pause every now and then in the playlist.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Play some ogg files with Phonon-vlc in Amarok. Their length isn't shown correctly.

Actual Results:  
Too short songs will stop the playlist.

Comment 1 Nikos Chantziaras 2010-08-30 11:19:37 UTC

I can confirm this bug.

Using latest phonon-vlc from Git 
(git://gitorious.org/phonon/phonon-vlc.git).
Amarok 2.3.1.90.
KDE 4.5.0.
Phonon 4.4.2.
VLC 1.1 branch from Git 
(git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-1.1.git).

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-30 11:25:20 UTC

Confirmed by comment #1

Comment 3 Jean-Baptiste Kempf 2010-10-17 19:53:33 UTC

I believe this is fixed with 92cfd6f26913f86e4a4addb09e56347580b9858e

http://gitorious.org/phonon/phonon-vlc/commit/92cfd6f26913f86e4a4addb09e56347580b9858e

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-10-17 20:38:29 UTC

Fixed based on comment #3

Comment 5 Geert Lamers 2010-12-01 20:40:15 UTC

I don't think it's fixed at all. I've been using the Git version of phonon-vlc (Gentoo ebuild medias-sound/phonon-vlc-9999 from kde overlay) and I still have problems playing OGG files. 

Only difference is, now it advances to the next track in the playlist before stopping, whereas it used to stop at the end of the track (so to resume I press "play" now, where I used to press "next").

Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-12-03 18:42:01 UTC

Reopening based on comment #5

Comment 7 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-12-05 22:13:25 UTC

bump version

Comment 8 Geert Lamers 2010-12-06 15:16:04 UTC

Closer inspection showed that the problem also occurs playing FLAC files, so it must be a different bug. Sorry for the inconvenience. Will test using phonon-vlc-0.3.1 before filing a new bugreport.

Comment 9 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-12-06 18:54:41 UTC

OK, closing again, thanks for your feedback.

Comment 10 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-04-27 21:32:40 UTC

Reassigning to the new bugzilla product for better bug tracing of the various
backends. Sorry for the noise.