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

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2013-05-05 16:28:54, Francesco Poli wrote:
> 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.

Okay, so not a gconf vs. dconf issue.

> > 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...

Yes, dconf from the dconf-tools package.

At this point I don't know what's wrong here. Is dconf-service running?
Is dbus running? Is iceweasel/gecko-mediaplayer able to access dbus?
(I'm just guessing here. But dbus and dconf-service look like possibly
points of failure as they are required to get the settings, AFAICT.)

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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