Bug 398967

Summary:	Media player applet hides itself in the system tray after VLC player to start the next audio/video playback
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component:	Media Player widget	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	gaetan.gilbert, lucia.mrenica, materka, nate, notuxius, plasma-bugs-null, serkonda7
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.16.90
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Patrick Silva 2018-09-22 20:55:07 UTC

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open dolphin, select two or more video files, right click any selected file
2. select "open with vlc"
3. in vlc player, play the next video from the playlist by clicking the button aside the stop button

EXPECTED RESULT
media player applet remains visible in the system tray

ACTUAL RESULT
~2 seconds after vlc to start the next video playback, media player applet hides itself in the system tray, it appears in "notifications and status" together other hidden icons. Both progress bar and play/pause button of the applet stop working.


SOFTWARE VERSIONS
Sistema operacional: KDE neon Developer Edition
Versão do KDE Plasma: 5.14.80
Versão da Qt: 5.11.1
Versão do KDE Frameworks: 5.51.0

Comment 1 Alexander Mentyu 2018-10-25 11:11:23 UTC

Can reproduce.

If first file was opened from Dolphin and then second file was opened without closing of VLC - upon opening of second file media player tray icon becomes 'stop' icon from 'play' icon for a split second - this might be intended behavior upon loading of file - but it doesn't happens when switching prev/next file and file is also is loading in VLC. Sometimes icon doesn't becomes 'stop' icon and doesn't disappears upon switching prev/next files in VLC - but if you click fast enough - media player tray icon becomes 'stop' icon and disappears

Operating System: KDE neon Developer Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.80
Qt Version: 5.11.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0

Comment 2 Lucia Mrenica 2018-10-25 18:55:13 UTC

Yes I also have this bug but on older setup:

Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.2
Qt Version: 5.12-beta3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.51.0

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-09-20 13:46:07 UTC

Thanks for your bug reporting effort but can you please stop bumping the affected version number every time a new release comes out. I get an email every time this happens which is annoying. Unless the bug has been fixed, it can be assumed, it is still valid, no matter what the version tag says.

Comment 4 Konrad Materka 2020-05-10 21:19:39 UTC

This is a bug in VLC. When track changes, property "PlaybackStatus" in DBus interface is set to "Stopped" and does not return to "Playing":

Received signal from :1.372, path /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2, interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties, member PropertiesChanged
  Arguments: "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player", [Argument: a{sv} {"PlaybackStatus" = [Variant(QString): "Stopped"]}], {}

Comment 5 Konrad Materka 2020-05-10 21:45:06 UTC

(In reply to Konrad Materka from comment #4)
> This is a bug in VLC. When track changes, property "PlaybackStatus" in DBus
> interface is set to "Stopped" and does not return to "Playing":

To be precise: Property "PlaybackStatus" is set to "Playing" eventually, but client needs to read it manually. There is no notification sent about property value change.

Comment 6 serkonda7 2023-04-27 08:08:02 UTC

*** Bug 469009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2023-04-27 15:25:38 UTC

I can't reproduce this issue with VLC 3.0.19 from Fedora distro repos. It is possible that it's been fixed in VLC recently? Can anyone else reproduce the issue with that version of VLC or a newer one?

Comment 8 Patrick Silva 2023-04-30 23:48:25 UTC

The latest version available in vlc website is 3.0.18
https://www.videolan.org/

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2023-05-14 17:49:14 UTC

Weird.

Regardless, as Konrad said, it's a bug in VLC.