| Summary: | Media Player applet says 'No media playing' when I play specific videos with Celluloid or Totem players | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Patrick Silva <bugseforuns> |
| Component: | Media Player | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bharadwaj.raju777, kde, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.25.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/40b2226c92ba9dcc59b3c66cb4cacb58788b08a4 | Version Fixed In: | 5.26.1 |
| Attachments: | video file | ||
Do Celluloid and Totem have MPRIS2 support? You can check with either QDbusViewer (search for "mpris"), or with command-line tools like playerctl. If they don't have MPRIS2 support, we can't really do anything. Correction: I meant to ask, do these players expose an MPRIS2 interface when these specific videos are playing? If they don't, it would be a bug in those players. I'm unable to reproduce with Celluloid player. But it's still reproducible with Totem despite it is controllable via mpris. $ playerctl -l totem Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Graphics Platform: Wayland Thanks. I think I've figured out why it is. Totem does provide an MPRIS interface, but it is very rudimentary: it allows you to play/pause, but doesn't provide any metadata like title, artist, filename, URL, etc. So the applet takes this lack of information as "No media playing", but that's incorrect. I guess in that case we should just show an icon without saying "No media playing". I'll make an MR for that. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2179 Git commit 62e5bb37a2c4751d5298aba8b4937feef31af9c9 by Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 08/10/2022 at 09:48. Pushed by bharadwaj-raju into branch 'master'. If an app is playing media but hasn't provided a title, say as much instead of "No media playing" Certain apps, like GNOME's Totem, provide a very rudimentary MPRIS interface with next-to-no metadata. Currently the applet and lockscreen show "No media playing" when these apps play something, which is inaccurate. Change the message in case of (playing || paused) && !title to "No title". M +1 -1 applets/mediacontroller/contents/ui/AlbumArtStackView.qml M +5 -1 lookandfeel/org.kde.breeze/contents/lockscreen/MediaControls.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/62e5bb37a2c4751d5298aba8b4937feef31af9c9 Git commit 40b2226c92ba9dcc59b3c66cb4cacb58788b08a4 by Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 08/10/2022 at 09:51. Pushed by bharadwaj-raju into branch 'Plasma/5.26'. If an app is playing media but hasn't provided a title, say as much instead of "No media playing" Certain apps, like GNOME's Totem, provide a very rudimentary MPRIS interface with next-to-no metadata. Currently the applet and lockscreen show "No media playing" when these apps play something, which is inaccurate. Change the message in case of (playing || paused) && !title to "No title". (cherry picked from commit 62e5bb37a2c4751d5298aba8b4937feef31af9c9) M +1 -1 applets/mediacontroller/contents/ui/AlbumArtStackView.qml M +5 -1 lookandfeel/org.kde.breeze/contents/lockscreen/MediaControls.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/40b2226c92ba9dcc59b3c66cb4cacb58788b08a4 |
Created attachment 150501 [details] video file SUMMARY For some reason, Media Player applet says 'No media playing' when I play specific .avi and .mpg videos with Celluloid or Totem players. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. download the attached video 2. play the downloaded video with Celluloid or Totem (default player of Gnome) 3. click on Media Player applet in the system tray OBSERVED RESULT Media Player applet says 'No media playing' despite the playback is controllable as expected EXPECTED RESULT do not say 'No media playing' while a video is playing SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0 Qt Version: 5.15.5 Graphics Platform: Wayland