Bug 203759

Summary:	doesn't show video when not in full screen mode
Product:	[Applications] dragonplayer	Reporter:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	martin.sandsmark, rakuco
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Martin Steigerwald 2009-08-13 21:58:35 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Since KDE 4.3.0 dragonplayer doesn't show video when not in full screen mode.

Steps to reproduce:
- play a video in window, the area where they video should be shown remains blank
- switch to full screen mode, the video appears, no matter whether the full screen controls are shown or not
- switch back, the video disappears

Also dolphin does not show video in its preview pane anymore. I will do a separate bug report about that in a moment.

I am using the xine phonon backend. I tried with different video formats including mpg files from a DVD.

I am using these debian packages:

martin@shambhala:~> apt-show-versions | egrep "(phonon|kdelibs|dragon|dolphin|xine|xserver-xorg-video-radeon|xserver-xorg-core/)"
dolphin/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
dragonplayer/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs-bin/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs-data/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs-dbg/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs4c2a/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs5/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs5-data/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs5-dbg/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs5-dev/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
libphonon-dev/sid uptodate 4:4.5.2-1
libphonon4/sid uptodate 4:4.5.2-1
libxine1/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1+b2
libxine1-bin/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1+b2
libxine1-console/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1+b2
libxine1-dbg/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1+b2
libxine1-ffmpeg/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1+b2
libxine1-misc-plugins/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1+b2
libxine1-plugins/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1
libxine1-x/sid uptodate 1.1.16.3-1+b2
libxinerama-dev/lenny uptodate 2:1.0.3-2
libxinerama1/lenny uptodate 2:1.0.3-2
phonon/sid uptodate 4:4.5.2-1
phonon-backend-gstreamer/sid uptodate 4:4.3.1-4
phonon-backend-xine/sid uptodate 4:4.3.1-4
phonon-dbg/sid uptodate 4:4.5.2-1
x11proto-xinerama-dev/lenny uptodate 1.1.2-5
xine-ui/squeeze uptodate 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2.1
xserver-xorg-core/sid uptodate 2:1.6.3-1+b1
xserver-xorg-video-radeon/sid uptodate 1:6.12.2-3
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd/sid uptodate 1.2.5-1

on a ThinkPad T42 with

martin@shambhala:~> lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]

Comment 1 Martin Steigerwald 2009-08-13 22:06:04 UTC

The preview pane in dolphin also doesn't show videos anymore, see bug #203760.

In any case I hear the audio when the video is not shown, but I see a blank area instead of the video images.

AFAIR this didn't happen with KDE 4.3 RC2 debian packages. For sure it worked correctly with KDE 4.2.4 debian packages.

Comment 2 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2009-08-23 02:04:02 UTC

Have you tried it with other Phonon backends, such as the gstreamer one?

Comment 3 Martin Sandsmark 2009-12-01 05:49:33 UTC

Does it work with other Xine-based players (like GXine or xine-ui)?

Comment 4 Martin Sandsmark 2009-12-01 05:50:24 UTC

*** Bug 203760 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Martin Steigerwald 2009-12-01 12:02:40 UTC

I haven't seen this recently. Using KDE 4.3.2 in the meanwhile. I am closing this. I will reopen should it happen again.