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GstDecodeBin2: This appears to be a text file

Asked by Randall Weston

When accessing Home folder i get error "GstDecodeBin2: This appears to be a text file" The file in question is a riped dvd file. I know that there have been bugs reported on this issue. Using Movie Player to access file when error appeared. Could use some help in restoring home folder.

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Randall Weston (randallweston) said : 		#1

/home/randall/Videos/startrec.rip
/home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed
/home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/avi
/home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp
/home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp/logfile.txt

This seem to be the files that would be in question, the last entry show a .txt extension. I am wondering if Deleting this file will solve the access problem with the home folder and clear the GstDecodeBin2: error.

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Randall Weston (randallweston) said : 		#2

I attempted to Delete the Directories and file and here are the results. I could not remove the suspect files and directories. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

randall@HPBiostar-G31D-M7:~$ sudo rmdir /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed
rmdir: failed to remove `/home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed': Directory not empty
randall@HPBiostar-G31D-M7:~$ /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/avi
bash: /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/avi: is a directory
randall@HPBiostar-G31D-M7:~$ /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp
bash: /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp: is a directory
randall@HPBiostar-G31D-M7:~$ /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp/logfile.txt
bash: /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp/logfile.txt: Permission denied

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

In your attemts to remove the files you ommitted the "rmdir" and "rm" commands

The correct commands (and sequence) should be

sudo rm /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp/logfile.txt
sudo rmdir /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp
sudo rmdir /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/avi
sudo rmdir /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed

Yet I am not sure if removing the files will make sense.

Which file did you try to open with the movie player?
Opening /home/randall/dvdrip-data/unnamed/tmp/logfile.txt with the movie player most probably does not make sense.

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Randall Weston (randallweston) said : 		#4

The problem is that Totem and Vlc movie players opened the same file " wizardofoz-001.vob "

I have removed Mplayer and accessed the home folder and VLC media player is running :wizardofoz-001.vob. will attempt to remove that file

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Randall Weston (randallweston) said : 		#5

Problem Solved. Removed both Mplayer and Vlc to prevent file conflict that was causing the GstDecodeBin2: error!!!!!! Home Folder and contents are intact and accessible.
Ubuntu 10-10 Rocks!!!!! Thanks for the Assistance :)