[gutsy] democracyplayer doesn't play videos (package dependencies problem)

[Basilio Kublik]

Binary package hint: democracyplayer

democracyplayer doesn't play any video and don't says why either, shows like it's playing but no image or sound is shown, just the progress bar advancing.

after a little digging i found out that it tries to make use of xine, but neither democracyplayer or democracyplayer-data suggest it as a dependency, nor even suggestion.
manually installing xine-ui package solves the problem, and now I'm able to view the videos i download with democracyplayer.

because in the description of the package says that this program will download _AND_ watch videos, i'll attach a patch for the debian package, setting xine-ui as a dependency of democracyplayer, hope this is correct, i think because this affects the functionality of the program, it should be a dependency not just a suggestion.

democracyplayer 0.9.6-1ubuntu1
democracyplayer-data 0.9.6-1ubuntu1

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Democracyplayer already depends on libxine, which is the actual library dependency:
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Package: democracyplayer
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 0.9.6-1ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 3158k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2), libboost-python1.34.0 (>= 1.34.0~rc2-1), libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516), libglib2.0-0
         (>= 2.13.5), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.11.4), libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.17.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (>
         1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxine1 (>= 1.1.4), libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, python2.5, python (>= 2.5),
         python (< 2.6), python-support (>= 0.3.4), python-gtk2, python-gnome2, python-gnome2-extras (>= 2.14.0-2), python-glade2, democracyplayer-data (>= 0.9.6-1), firefox
Suggests: ttf-bitstream-vera, python-psyco
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
 Democracy Player is a platform for Internet television and video. It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
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Possibly it should Recommend libxine-ffmpeg, which provides more codec support, but a dependency on xine-ui is incorrect.

Finally, the democracyplayer package should (hopefully) soon be replaced with a Miro package anyway.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

you're absolutely right, i just check it, libxine-ffmpeg it's all that it needs.

i'll mark this bug as "in progress" hoping for a quick arrive of Miro.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Fixed in the new Miro package.