[Bug 553857] New: Multimedia apps do not start opensuse-codec-installer on playing restricted media (mp3, etc.)
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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553857 Summary: Multimedia apps do not start opensuse-codec-installer on playing restricted media (mp3, etc.) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: badshah400@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 SUSE/3.5.4-1.1.2 Firefox/3.5.4 Both banshee and totem fail to play restricted media on a default install as expected. But in earlier versions <= 11.1, attempting to play restricted media would start a helper app called openSUSE-codec-installer that took users to a website where 1-click installs to required codecs would be present. With 11.2 both banshee and totem are incapable of launching this helper-app, although it is installed. Even more alarmingly, totem reports "Internal data flow error" upon an attempt to play such a file. How is a new user supposed to know about installing restricted codecs? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Play restricted media using banshee or totem 2. 3. Actual Results: Does not work; totem reports error, banshee does nothing. Expected Results: Helper app should launch guiding user to codec installation like in 11.2 or before -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Cristian Morales Vega
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Martin Seidler
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--- Comment #3 from Atri Bhattacharya
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--- Comment #4 from Cristian Morales Vega
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--- Comment #5 from Atri Bhattacharya
Are you sure? The PackageKit package misses the gst-install-plugins-helper->pk-gstreamer-install symlink. And Fedora has patches for GStreamer and RPM to add additional provides to the packages... that I think are needed for packagekit to do its work.
I am pretty sure about this, though it was not done in time for 11.3. It is one of the must-have features for GNOME in 11.4 [ http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_features#openSUSE_GNOME_2.32 ] and the idea, afaik, is to have packagekit do the work, instead of relying on codec-installer. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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