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

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 3 May 2013 14:29:23 +0200 Sebastian Ramacher wrote:

> On 2013-04-26 17:40:46, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > It might be that there are some issues with the gconf to dconf switch.
> > > I will need to investigate that a bit further.
> > 
> > I tried the following:
> > 
> >   $ mv -i ~/.config/dconf/user ~/tmp/
> >   $ gnome-mplayer
> > 
> > and I checked the preferences: I found the emulation options *enabled*
> > by default, as you said. Other options seemed to be different as
> > well...
> > 
> > However, the issue with Windows Media Player videos seems to persist,
> > even after this "trick".   :-(
> > 
> > As far as my settings are concerned, there seems to be some gconf→dconf
> > migration issue or something else that made me get non-default option
> > values.
> 
> Looks like it. There should be a folder named
> ~/.gconf/apps/gecko-mediaplayer containing %gconf.xml and
> preferences/%gconf.xml. Is there anything suspicious in there, e.g. is
> the WMP support disabled in one of these two files?

Mmmmh:

  $ cd
  $ ls .gconf/apps/gecko-mediaplayer*
  ls: cannot access .gconf/apps/gecko-mediaplayer*: No such file or
directory

There seems to be no directory named like this...
And nothing else in ~/.gconf/apps/ seems to be related to
gecko-mediaplayer, to gnome-mplayer, or to mplayer.

> 
> Thanks to the bug report I've discovered that gecko-mediaplayer still
> ships the gconf schema. That's fixed in the git repository but I'm not
> sure if that fixes this bug [1].

I am glad that my bug report has been useful for at least something.
Now let's hope we manage to figure out how to fix the core issue...

> 
> > Is there a way to merge this newly generated ~/.config/dconf/user file
> > into the previous one?
> 
> I really don't know.

I see.

> 
> > Or should I *manually* annotate each gnome-mplayer configuration option
> > and the corresponding default value and then *manually* set each option
> > to the annotated value?!?
> 
> I guess dconf reset /apps/gecko-mediaplayer/ should reset everything to
> the default values but haven't tried it myself.

Are you referring to the dconf program from the dconf-tools package?
Maybe I should install that package: it may turn out to be useful in
other cases, as well...

Please let me know whether I correctly interpreted what you suggested.
Thanks for your time!


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