Bug#867115: smplayer crashes with "Error parsing option noquiet (option not found)"

[Reinhard Tartler]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

Thank you for your bugreport. I had a look at the issue and have some
questions for you.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 6:09 PM Daniel 'DaB.' Baur <debian at dabpunkt.eu>
wrote:

> Package: smplayer
> Version: 16.11.0~ds0-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> after the update to Debian Stretch, which makes smplayer using mpv instead
> of mplayer, the smplayer does not work anymore.
>
> Any file I try to open, smplayer crashes with "Error parsing option noquiet
> (option not found)". The problems seems to be, that mpv doesn’t have the
> same options that mplayer had, but smplayer does not respect this.
>

I can't reproduce that here. I've tested with these package versions:
siretart at debian:~$ dpkg -l mpv mplayer2 smplayer
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                   Version
 Architecture             Description
+++-======================================-========================-========================-=================================================================================
un  mplayer2                               <none>                   <none>
                  (no description available)
ii  mpv                                    0.23.0-2+b2              amd64
                 video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
ii  smplayer                               16.11.0~ds0-1            amd64
                 Complete front-end for MPlayer and mpv


Invoking smplayer like this plays the video just fine:

siretart at debian:~$ smplayer
/tmp/20060131_dropping-pre-i686_jbailey-doko.ogg
This is SMPlayer v. 16.11.0 (revision 8242) running on Linux
siretart at debian:~$ echo $?
0

Please be more specific how to reproduce this issue. Do you have any local
versions of mpv in /usr/lo


Could this please be fixed or reverted back? Currently smplayer is pretty
useless in Debian.


Sincerely,
DaB.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (300,
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages smplayer depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.3.0-18
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  13.0.6-1+b2
ii  libqt5core5a              5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5dbus5               5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5gui5                5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5network5            5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5script5             5.7.1~20161021+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5widgets5            5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5xml5                5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libstdc++6                6.3.0-18
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  mpv                       0.23.0-2+b2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages smplayer recommends:
ii  smplayer-l10n    16.11.0~ds0-1
ii  smplayer-themes  1:16.8.0-1

smplayer suggests no packages.

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or something?

Also, there is a new upstream version of smplayer in
experimental 17.3.0~ds0-1. Do you experience this issue also with that
version? If not, I'd propose to upload it to unstable.


>
> AFAIS you were told in #783401 that this would happen, but somehow this
> was ignored.
>

I don't know. That bug was marked fixed on Fri, 15 Jan 2016  and didn't see
any updates since then. I'd assume that the package worked fine for the
uploader back then, just like the current package works fine with mpv for
me.

It is certainly possible that I'm missing something here. In that case, any
clarifications would be much appreciated.

Best,
Reinhard
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