Bug 336096

Summary: KMPlayer X Error and locks KDE Desktop Effects
Product: [Unmaintained] kmplayer Reporter: Radu <radubaetica>
Component: generalAssignee: Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: grave    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.11.3d   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Radu 2014-06-11 19:35:44 UTC 
I get the output below when launching KMPlayer from a terminal emulator:

$ kmplayer
KGlobal::locale(): Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x360017b
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x360017b
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x360017b

The X Error is repeated about 50 times.
My KDE desktop effects seem to disappear while KMPLayer is on. KMPLayer won't play any video.
Also, Krusader crashes when attempting to view a video or sound file with KrViewer (using F3 key). 

I'm using Kubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.13.0-29-lowlatency and Nvidia 331.67 video drivers and Xorg 1.15.1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open kmplayer in a terminal emulator
Actual Results:  
KDE Desktop Effects disappear; KMPlayer won't play any video (audio will work, though)

Expected Results:  
I expected KMPlayer to work, KDE Desktop Effects to work, too
Also, I expected Krusader not to crash while viewing/listening to a multimedia file with F3

This is the first bug I submit; I'll try to provide any other information requested, if you tell me what it's needed.
Comment 1 Koos Vriezen 2014-06-14 09:37:03 UTC 
You may have to select another video/audio output, see config dialog.
I would select XVideo and pulse as first attempt. Try using the mplayer player. You can try out some variations by starting mplayer from the command line, eg.

mplayer -vo xv -ao pulse movie-file

see `mplayer -vo help` and `mplayer -ao help` how these outputs are called on the mplayer commandline.
Comment 2 Radu 2014-06-14 09:51:44 UTC 
I've tried to select other video and audio outputs, but that didn't helped at all.
mplayer works just fine, it's KMPlayer that doesn't; I know this is odd, but I play my media from Krusader with the built-in Krviewer, which uses the Konqueror built-in multimedia player, which is Kmplayer.
I've tried to recompile KMPlayer from source, same errors as described in the 1st post:
* from term emulator, KDE Plasma effects dissapear , X Error as output, won't play anything, the startup/shutdown animation don't show;
* from Konqueror, just black screen, won't play anything;
* from Krusader/Krwiever - crash.
Comment 3 Koos Vriezen 2014-06-14 11:16:40 UTC 
Indeed odd, also never read a report before like that.
When you run top simultaneously, do you see an excessive memory usage by kmplayer?  Could maybe the start-up animations. But running `kmplayer movie-file` should skip any animations, likewise for the kmplayer plugin.
You could disable cairo support when you recompile kmplayer, maybe easiest is to uninstall cairo-dev  when creating the cmake files.
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-12 02:52:14 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-21 04:36:06 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2023-01-10 01:52:20 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 7 Radu 2023-01-10 19:23:57 UTC 
KMPLayer 0.12.0b does no longer presents this error. Thank you for developing it !