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

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Sorry for the late replay.

On 2013-05-08 23:53:02, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2013 11:00:17 +0200 Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> 
> > On 2013-05-05 19:08:50, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > On Sun, 5 May 2013 18:21:50 +0200 Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> [...]
> > > > What does
> > > > 
> > > >  $ gsettings get apps.gecko-mediaplayer.preferences disable-wmp
> > > > 
> > > > produce and does it match the settings set with dconf(-editor)?
> > > 
> > > Wait, wait!    ;-)
> > > gsettings? I don't have this command... let me see...
> > > Should I install the libglib2.0-bin package?
> > 
> > Yes, please.
> 
> OK, I am now looking at the settings with both dconf-editor and with
> gsettings.
> 
>   $ gsettings get apps.gecko-mediaplayer.preferences disable-wmp
>   true
> 
> which seems to match with what I see with dconf-editor, under
> 
>   apps
>     gecko-mediaplayer
>       preferences
> 
> where "disable-wmp" is checked, despite having a default value == false.
> 
> I am trying to set every gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer preference
> to its default value and see what happens.
> 
> Mmmh, first thing I noticed: after the following steps
> 
>   0) start dconf-editor
>   1) reset all gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer preferences to their defaults
>   2) quit dconf-editor
>   3) start gnome-mplayer
>   4) enter its preferences dialog window and just
>     take a look (around without changing anything)
>   5) exit from the dialog window
>   6) quit gnome-mplayer
>   7) start dconf-editor
> 
> many settings are again marked as manually-changed (in boldface font),
> even though almost all of these are actually equal to their default
> value; some values are indeed non-default (such as audio-lang, for
> instance).
> I do not experience this awkward behavior, if I skip steps 4 and 5.
> It seems to me that the gnome-mplayer internal configuration dialog
> window does something strange to ~/.config/dconf/user ...

Nothing awkward happening there. Just if you hit ok there, it saves the
values in the config. That's what it's supposed to do.

> However, even after resetting the preferences with dconf-editor, and
> restarting iceweasel, I still experience the issue I originally
> reported: the browser still claims that an additional plugin is needed
> for WMV videos...

Maybe we should have checked the obvious first. Which version of
iceweasel are you using? And if you start iceweasel, are there any
spurious warnings/messages? Could you check with stat or similar if the
files from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins are loaded and by setting the
appropriate LD_DEBUG flags (check ld-linux.so(8) for details) if they
are loaded without problems?

Maybe we just hit an incompatible combination of
iceweasel/gecko-mediaplayer and the config stuff is just a red herring.

> Does anything I said help in pinpointing the problem?

Sadly not.

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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