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Dragon Player doesn't

Started by	Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>
First post	2021-09-07 20:10 +0200
Last post	2021-09-08 17:10 +0200
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  Dragon Player doesn't Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-07 20:10 +0200
    Re: Dragon Player doesn't David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-07 21:30 +0200
    Re: Dragon Player doesn't Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2021-09-08 02:00 +0200
    Re: Dragon Player doesn't piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-08 03:30 +0200
      Re: Dragon Player doesn't Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-09-08 05:20 +0200
        Re: Dragon Player doesn't harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2021-09-08 09:10 +0200
          Re: Dragon Player doesn't piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-08 17:00 +0200
        Re: Dragon Player doesn't Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-08 14:40 +0200
        Re: Dragon Player doesn't piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-08 17:10 +0200

#239779 — Dragon Player doesn't

From	Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>
Date	2021-09-07 20:10 +0200
Subject	Dragon Player doesn't
Message-ID	<CUNHH-7wc-5@gated-at.bofh.it>

I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now. 
When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon 
Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file. 
When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video 
to play, but again it doesn't play it.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it?

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#239782

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Date	2021-09-07 21:30 +0200
Message-ID	<CUOX7-8cW-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239779

On Tue 07 Sep 2021 at 13:04:50 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:
> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now.
> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose
> Dragon Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play
> the file. When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can
> select a video to play, but again it doesn't play it.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it?

I hadn't even heard of Dragon Player, but I have come across a
situation where a video won't play because either the player
or another active program has grabbed exclusive access to the
audio device. IIRC the player would at least display the first
frame of the video, but just sit there.

Cheers,
David.

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#239784

From	Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE <zp6cge@gmx.net>
Date	2021-09-08 02:00 +0200
Message-ID	<CUTap-2gV-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239779

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On Dienstag, 7. September 2021 13:04:50 -04 Gary Dale wrote:
> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now.
> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose
> Dragon Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play
> the file. When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can
> select a video to play, but again it doesn't play it.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for
> it?
I can only say that on Debian unstable (Bookworm) it plays the video but no audio
while VLC plays video and audio.
I didn't bother to look into the audio problem, however.

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#239786

From	piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com>
Date	2021-09-08 03:30 +0200
Message-ID	<CUUzw-3jS-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239779

On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote:
> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now.
> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon
> Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file.
> When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video
> to play, but again it doesn't play it.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it?

I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it say?

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#239789

From	Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>
Date	2021-09-08 05:20 +0200
Message-ID	<CUWhX-4JU-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239786

On 2021-09-07 21:21, piorunz wrote:
> On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote:
>> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now.
>> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon
>> Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file.
>> When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video
>> to play, but again it doesn't play it.
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for 
>> it?
>
> I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it 
> say?
>
Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool 
Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not 
be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this 
sequence:
WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no 
objectName ) to  Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ).
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend 
plugin could not be loaded

WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no 
objectName ) to  Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).

Along with numerous other messages, including several similar to:

kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in 
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so" "Failed to 
extract plugin meta data from 
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so'"

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#239790

From	harryweaver@tutanota.com
Date	2021-09-08 09:10 +0200
Message-ID	<CUZSx-7i6-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239789


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8 Sep 2021, 13:16 by gary@extremeground.com:

> On 2021-09-07 21:21, piorunz wrote:
>
>> On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now.
>>> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon
>>> Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file.
>>> When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video
>>> to play, but again it doesn't play it.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it?
>>>
>>
>> I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it say?
>>
> Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this sequence:
> WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to  Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ).
> WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
>
> WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to  Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
>
> Along with numerous other messages, including several similar to:
>
> kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so'"
>
Dragonplayer is part of the KDE set up.
I installed Falkon and couldn't understand why it had almost zero configuration options.
It wasn't until I installed konq-plugins they finally appeared.
I think KDE needs to pick up its game a little, in its ability to pull in dependencies.
Needing to do a full KDE install in order to run a browser or video player is a little too much to expect, and having to hunt around for obscure necessities harks back to the dark ages, somewhat.
Cheers!

Harry

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#239792

From	piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com>
Date	2021-09-08 17:00 +0200
Message-ID	<CV7do-3le-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239790

On 08/09/2021 08:00, harryweaver@tutanota.com wrote:
> I installed Falkon and couldn't understand why it had almost zero configuration options.
> It wasn't until I installed konq-plugins they finally appeared.

Please report this bug then on Debian Bug tracking system, against
"Falkon", so installing this package pulls "konq-plugins", this is easy fix.

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#239791

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Date	2021-09-08 14:40 +0200
Message-ID	<CV51T-22S-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239789

On 2021-09-08, Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> wrote:
>>
>> I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it 
>> say?
>>
> Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool 
> Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not 
> be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this 
> sequence:
> WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no 
> objectName ) to  Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ).
> WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend 
> plugin could not be loaded
>

Do you have the phonon4qt5 plugin(s) installed?

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#239794

From	piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com>
Date	2021-09-08 17:10 +0200
Message-ID	<CV7n4-3E8-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#239789

On 08/09/2021 04:16, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 2021-09-07 21:21, piorunz wrote:
>> On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now.
>>> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon
>>> Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file.
>>> When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video
>>> to play, but again it doesn't play it.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for
>>> it?
>>
>> I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it
>> say?
>>
> Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool
> Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not
> be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this
> sequence:
> WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no
> objectName ) to  Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ).
> WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend
> plugin could not be loaded
>
> WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no
> objectName ) to  Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
>
> Along with numerous other messages, including several similar to:
>
> kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in
> "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so" "Failed to
> extract plugin meta data from
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so'"

Please report on Debian BTS against Dragon Player then, include all
terminal outputs and other system logs, if there is anything interesting
there. Use "reportbug" package to do that.
Also you may want to try Dragon Player on another machine before
submitting bug, to make sure this is not your setup at fault. And/or you
can try Bookworm see how it works there with newer version.

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