This happened again, and the only common factor with the one above was Totem playing a video again (this time I wasn’t messing with the timeline, just watching).

I was editing a video in Kdenlive (in that I had the project open on my first monitor), and was simultaneously scrubbing one of the input clips on my second monitor using Totem, when the crash occurred.

Not much further info at the moment that I can think of. Just making this initial report so that I have something to refer to, should a similar crash occur again.

In addition to Totem, Firefox also exhibits this with fullscreen HTML5 video. Here’s a good test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xkNy9gfKOg

The Unity Dash context menu for Rhythmbox currently has separate items for ”Play” and ”Pause”. I think Totem does better by eliminating those for a single ”Play/Pause” item which does both. I also think the interface should be consistent across these two applications. Rhythmbox-client even supports the same parameter as totem for this (–play-pause), so I created a patch for rhythmbox.desktop based on totem.desktop, which should accomplish what I’m after.

That’s a negative: this one persists.

Confirming: the fix works.

Oggs, AVI’s affected as well. Apparently it’s just MKV’s that either don’t exhibit this or just manifest it differently.

Actually, with the MP3 it’s Bug #918077 (which I just reported). Could be the same underlying issue, but I felt it best to report these separately as the symptom differs slightly.

See Bug #907644 for a similar issue with MKV files.

With MP4 and MP3 files, with just one such file on the playlist and looped (with repeat mode on), the file is played through twice with no problem, then it just stops at the end. Restarting the video by double-clicking on the playlist item works.

As in #907644, if you add another file (or another instance of the same file) to the playlist and let it loop between the two, there’s no problem. But with the single file repeating the bug is 100% reproducible. Not reproducible with VLC.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load an MP3 or MP4 in Totem.
2. Set ’Repeat Mode’ on.
3. Let the file play through two rounds.

What happens:
At the end of second play, the playing stops and does not start again by itself.

What I expect to happen:
For the file to repeat ad infinitum.

I’ve found an MP3 file that also exhibits this. Can’t link it for © reasons, but I’ve got it here for testing.