Bug 383683

Summary:	Desktop file managers fail to propose dragonplayer for many file formats (desktop file missing mime types)
Product:	[Applications] dragonplayer	Reporter:	Petter Reinholdtsen <pere>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Harald Sitter <sitter>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, myriam
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.debia
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Petter Reinholdtsen 2017-08-19 06:53:13 UTC

When using a gui file browser to look at media files, it is possible to play the file using the players announcing support for the given file format.  For a novise GUI user, this is often the only way to play media content.

But the dragonplayer desktop file is lacking several mime types for file formats it understand, and do not show up when trying to play them.  See
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport for a list of mime types announced by other video players and how dragonplayer relates to this list.

Comment 1 Petter Reinholdtsen 2017-08-19 06:58:33 UTC

Ah, forgot to mention that this is also reported as Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/852054 .

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2022-11-08 06:50:16 UTC

Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 3 Petter Reinholdtsen 2022-11-08 07:32:04 UTC

[Justin Zobel]
> Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a
> while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if
> you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

Given that "reproducing" is to just look at the .desktop file and its
content, I fail to understand what more I can do to help you here.

Comment 4 Harald Sitter 2022-11-08 15:09:34 UTC

Which ones would you like to see?

Comment 5 Petter Reinholdtsen 2022-11-08 15:20:11 UTC

[Harald Sitter]
> Which ones would you like to see?

I most use VLC, so my wishes are really not relevant here.  A more
interesting question is which for formats do the developers want
dragonplayer to show up as an alternative, or would the developers want
dragonplayer to play out of the box on Linux.  I do not know the answer
to that question, but I see that dragonplayer is announcing the smallest
number for formats, and a lot fewer than the formats it is capable of
handling.

--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

Comment 6 Harald Sitter 2022-11-22 14:41:08 UTC

All the ones that are listed. That is why they are listed.

Comment 7 Petter Reinholdtsen 2022-11-22 16:49:08 UTC

[Harald Sitter]
> All the ones that are listed. That is why they are listed.

Not quite sure if I am able to parse these two sentences correct, but I
read it to mean that the developers of dragonplayer only want the
program to handle the MIME types listed in the .desktop file today, and
not any others, like application/ogg, video/dv and video/mkv.  Thank you
for the clarification This is a useful datapoint to have. :)