Bug 242597 - Amarok stops if track is shorter than shown (vlc bug with ogg files)
Summary: Amarok stops if track is shorter than shown (vlc bug with ogg files)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: phonon-backend-vlc
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Sandsmark
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Reported: 2010-06-23 15:04 UTC by Cyril Brosch
Modified: 2011-05-07 10:10 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 0.3.1

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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.