Totem BBCiPlayer plugin can't be enable due to lack of depends

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: totem

Karmic 20090608 desktop image

On the installed system, go into totem, Click on plugins, and try and enable the BBCiPlayer plugin.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 8 12:14:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem 2.27.1-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you describe what error you get exactly when enabing this one?

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

If you click on the tickbox to enable the plugin, it just throws up an error message saying "Could not enable bbc iplayer plugin"

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Seb

The cli displays the following

tester@ubuntu:~$ totem
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/iplayer/iplayer.py", line 6, in <module>
    import iplayer2
  File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/iplayer/iplayer2.py", line 15, in <module>
    import feedparser
ImportError: No module named feedparser

** (totem:3848): WARNING **: Could not load plugin iplayer

** (totem:3848): WARNING **: Error, impossible to activate plugin 'BBC iPlayer'
Fatal Python error: PyEval_SaveThread: NULL tstate
Aborted

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Right after paying a bit more attention to the bug output from the terminal I have a work-around

You need to install 2 packages that pull in some extra packages, once this is done I then get to enable the bbc iplayer plugin and use it to connect but then it fails to play.

The packages required are:

python-feedparser (pulls in 3 extra package iirc)
python-beautifulsoup

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

other issue is just down to not having a codec installed I believe. I installed ubuntu-restricted extras and now it plays fine :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.27.92-0ubuntu2

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totem (2.27.92-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * Tweaked the bbc changes to move iplayer and not bbc
  * debian/patches/91_git_change_fix_xml_escaping_issue.patch:
    - git change to fix an escaping issue on youtube videos (lp: #416359)

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * debian/control:
    - Drop superfluous dependency on python-gdata from totem-plugins.
    - Build-depend on libgdata-dev to enable the YouTube plugin
      (LP: #384768).
    - totem-plugins-extra replaces totem-plugins (<< 2.27.92-0ubuntu2)
    - totem-plugins-extra depends on python-feedparser and
      python-beautifulsoup to make BBC plugin work.
  * debian/totem-plugins{,-extra}:
    - Move BBC plugin in to totem-plugins-extra, as it has dependencies
      in universe. (lp: #384767)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:52:32 +0200