totem/gstreamer/ffmpeg issues

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 21:04, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I don't know what has changed (and whose fault it might be), but today's
> >rpmfusion/rawhide update broke totem video play back badly for me 
> >on an F10/rawhide + rpmfusion-free + rpmfusion-nonfree system.
> >
> >E.g. I am observing 
> >* selinux alerts related toten-video-thumbnailer and totem itself having
> >selinux problems with libavformat
> >* playback of many (all?) *.flv's and *.mp4's has stopped working (So
> >far, I haven't found any file for which it works).
> >...
> >
> >All I can say: rpmfusion things used to work when I tried last weekend,
> >and now don't do so anymore.
> 
> This is most likely caused by the new ffmpeg which has cpu specific 
> optimalizations turned on for the first time, try manualy removing the 
> version under /usr/lib[64]/sse2, that should make you fallback to the old 
> no cpu specific optimalizations version.

There are no separate SSE2-optimized binaries in x86_64 build. All x86_64
CPUs have SSE2.

> Also try turning of selinux (setenforce 0) to see if that fixes things, 
> note I'm not advocating this as a fix, merely suggesting doing this as a 
> way to debug this.

It's a known issue on x86_32: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72
I've filed a bug upstream, awaiting fix.

x86_64 shouldn't have any SELinux alerts, but I don't have a suitable
system to test.

Regards,
R.

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