Bug#706154: gecko-mediaplayer: claims that an additional plugin is needed, but standalone gnome-mplayer plays the video

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2013-04-25 22:03:44, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > On 2013-04-25 16:54:00, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> [...]
> > >   2) iceweasel behaves exactly as if none of the installed plugins were 
> > >      able to deal with this file type: it popped up a dialog window,
> > >      offering me to download the video or to open it with GNOME MPlayer
> [...]
> > > Why does gecko-mediaplayer claim that additional plugins are needed
> > > to play the above-mentioned videos, while gnome-mplayer is able to
> > > play them, when running in a standalone window?
> > > 
> [...]
> > Did you change the settings regarding Windows Media Player emulation
> > (Settings / Plugin)?
> 
> Do you mean in the gnome-mplayer preferences?

Yes, they are shared in some sense.

> I am pretty sure I haven't changed anything regarding this.
> However, I see that I have all those emulation options (QuickTime
> Emulation, RealPlayer Emulation, Windows Media Player Emulation, DiVX
> Player Emulation) disabled!
> 
> I tried to enable all of those emulation options, but the result is not
> different, even after restarting iceweasel...

That's weird. What does about:plugins say? gecko-mediaplayer should be
listed for plenty of Windows Media mimetypes there.

> > It defaults to being enabled and I just checked
> > that it indeed is enabled by default for a new user and I'm able to
> > watch the videos with gecko-mediaplayer in a new profile.
> 
> Where is the user configuration file for gnome-mplayer?
> I mean: which file(s) should I move out of the way, in order to start
> with a new gnome-mplayer profile (without creating a new user on my
> box)?

dconf should store the settings in ~/.config/dconf/user … but that's a
binary file containing all settings for any application using dconf. But
you can probably manipulate the settings with dconf-editor.

It might be that there are some issues with the gconf to dconf switch.
I will need to investigate that a bit further.

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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