gst-player will force close when .wav audio file is selected

[rebeccasf]

I am compiling gst-player with OE-Core bitbake. A media player icon was created on desktop, application was able to launch. However, when I try to open a .wav audio file, media player will force close automatically.
No issue on video playback. I can't find any patches that fix this issue on audio playback. I did not see any issue on playing .wav audio file in older version 1.6.X. The failure start to surface when i migrated to v1.7.x. Now I am having latest gst-player source from this repo, but the issue is still there.

[sdroege]

What do you mean with media player icon? Which application is installed by OE-Core bitbake exactly?

Also if you say "force close automatically", can you get the output on the terminal of the application and also get a backtrace of the crash with gdb (after making sure to have debug symbols for all relevant libraries)?

Independent of that, don't use GStreamer 1.7. Use either 1.6 or 1.8, as 1.7 was an unstable development series that was the progress to the stable 1.8 release. I hope OE is not packaging 1.7 at this point :)

[sdroege]

After a short research, it seems like OE is packaging gtk-play from this repository? Please also check which exact GStreamer version you have, and which gst-plugins-bad version. And if gtkglsink and gtksink are both available. Additionally to the things I asked above

Thanks! :)

[sdroege]

http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer has 1.7.2 for the "git" recipes. If you get crashes with that version, please either downgrade to 1.6.3 or update to 1.8.2 and see if the problem disappears.

[rebeccasf]

Alright, I will get back to you with all the details. Thanks.

[sdroege]

Perfect, thanks for looking into this :)

[sdroege]

I also created https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9811 for the other part that should be fixed at the OE side.