Confusing Media Player Open With

[nullack]

Binary package hint: totem

I'm using Totem with the gstreamer backend on Ubuntu intrepid synched to the repos as of today 08/08/08. When I need to associate video footage to open with Media Player by right clicking the file and selecting open with another application, a user is presented with two confusing elements for Movie Player. The first is Movie Player, the second is Movie Player (Gstreamer).

This is not only confusing for a user, but it's also unnecessary for the user to make a choice. I need Totem to use the gstreamer back end as without it, it has no demuxers and decoders to play anything. It is also confusing because even when Movie Player is selected instead of the gstreamer variant, Totem's help about shows that gstreamer is in fact being used as the backend anyway.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, don't install totem-xine if you don't want to have totem-gstreamer and totem-xine listed? what do you suggest exactly there?

[nullack (nullack)]

When this bug originally occured, I did not have totem-xine installed. It seems to be unecessary to install a totem gstreamer mime type desktop when Movie Player already has gstreamer installed by default and uses that. The "choice" between Movie Player and Movie Player (gstreamer) is no real choice as both load the gstreamer backend. Perhaps the desktop mime type can be removed to avoid situation all together or similar. ROAF (Ubuntu Dev) on the Ubuntu forum felt it is bug as part of my discussion here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=882453

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is only one entry listed on my installation, can you make a screenshot of the issue you have on a new installation?

[nullack (nullack)]

Once the new alpha comes out in the next few days I'll do a new fresh install to confirm

[nullack (nullack)]

Sebastien I am currently unable to turf my testing install due to other tests I am executing however two other users with clean installs have confirmed this bug. On the Ubuntu forum you can see two screenshots from other testers confirming this problem does exist in the default install.

[nullack (nullack)]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=891392

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

please do not confirm your own reports and submit the screenshot to this report, i tried to see the screenshot in the forums but since i don't have an account there i cannot see it, this is the bug tracker so please attach the information to here, leaving it as incomplete waiting for the information Sebastien asked you for, thanks.

[nullack (nullack)]

The bug is confirmed. Three people have confirmed the bug as per the Intrepid testing forum thread I linked too that you can read without being a member. I also understand the bug guidelines allow for confirmation in these cases. Further, I personally spent time with Sebastien yesterday on IRC to demonstrate the bug to him and he agreed it was a bug indicating he knows what the fix is. He will fix it in the next upload.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is in the dialog to select and application and due to the debian changes to allow installing totem-gstreamer and totem-xine, the change might not be trivial since the default desktop is required for the associations and the gstreamer and xine variants should be list for user which want to use the non default one

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

setting as triaged then. thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report nullack , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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