Created attachment 117121 [details] Video showing time and progress bar glitch in Media Player. When playing music with Audacious, Media Player widget show a glitchy timer and progress bar. The video of the glitch is shown in an attached video. Its has been confirm to happen only to Audacious. Playing music with other application like firefox does not show a problem. Other people reported that only Audacious show this problem. Check out this Reddit thread about other people reports. https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/a8bk6r/anybody_got_this_media_player_glitch_just_want_to/ This bug was submitted to Audacious bug tracker, but was closed because the problem is believed to be KDE bug. https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/853 Audacious 3.10 Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20181219 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.4 Qt Version: 5.12.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.53.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.8-1-default OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory: 7.5 GiB of RAM
I doubt it's a plasma bug. Can you run "dbus-monitor" for a few seconds whilst this glitchy behavior is happening and attach that here and then reopen (dbus-monitor output may contain sensitive information if other apps are running., please check before uploading)
Created attachment 117150 [details] dbus-monitor output when Audacious is running I logout and login, close all application with only running Audacious. The glitch was observed when dbus-monitor is running. The text file contain output of dbus-monitor without root privilege.
From the docs: " Position — x (Time_In_Us) Read only The org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged signal is not emitted when this property changes. " https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/Player_Interface.html#Property:Position From your output: signal time=1546016973.985605 sender=:1.479 -> destination=(null destination) serial=171 path=/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=PropertiesChanged string "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player" array [ dict entry( string "Position" variant int64 27887000 ) ] repeatedly. Which is going against the spec. Please send it back to them with this info. If they argue let me know and I'll jump in the discussion. -------------- We can maybe just ignore these updates on the KDE side and work round it, but then we risk breaking some other obscure client that also doesn't follow the spec properly.
I filed a bug to Audacious based on your respond here: https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/855
Thanks
Audacious dev responds here: https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/855 They said that this is GDbus bug. Which is patch and waiting to be update.