Vlc bad show reamining time Ogg Theora

[Poooky]

Hi guys,
i have problem when i play Ogg Theora file vlc show bad reamining time. Does anyone know how fix it? Or it's just bug?

There is example - http://ubuntuone.com/2MvjR8cRVm6dMgL6K1vN5D

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It's a known issue with Ogg files.

[Poooky]

It's a known issue with Ogg files.

Bat Totem Player doesn't seem to have this problem...

[davenz]

Sorry to bump this thread, but I believe I have the same issue, in particular I am using the shipping version of VLC on Ubuntu 11.10 x86. On this platform, Totem plays the sample video fine, as does dragging and dropping it into Firefox 4.0+. VLC seemingly solely has problems with it.

Problem for me is I am wanting to use VLC to transcode output from recordMyDesktop - as OpenShot 1.4.2 has problems with the Ogg video files produced by recordMyDesktop. If I can't do this with VLC, I am well and truly stuck!

Sample video, if it's any help: http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/out.ogv

Cheers,
Dave

[davenz]

I should also mention that it's not just "bad time remaining" in VLC, but you can observe jumps in the playback - such that everything appears faster than captured. Again, fine in Totem, Firefox etc.

Cheers,
Dave

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Bumping the thread will not magically spawn patches, sorry.

[davenz]

Thanks (I guess) for the terse reply...

However what I'd ideally like to know is:

What's the specific bug? Is there a handy link to it - assuming I'm an end user who would like to sic a developer onto it.
Why does it affect VLC and not the other aforementioned applications? I mean, what's the difference here, in layman's terms?
Is there a timeframe or any sort of priority for patching it?

etc.

That's kind of more what I was hoping by bumping the thread.

Cheers,
Dave

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The fundamental problem is that Ogg is a very bad file format. The consequence and actual problem is that VLC has lots of trouble parsing them. And the VLC developers are few and busy.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

And the Ogg demuxer code is quite bad, to be honest.