uxplay-1.68.2 is broken in gstreamer>=1.24, (Ubuntu-24.04)

[F. Duncanh]

A change made in gstreamer-1.24 (which is supplied with ubuntu-24.04 (beta)) breaks uxplay-1.62.2 also supplied with Ubuntu-24.04. It is fixed by a small change in just-released uxplay-1.62.3. The maintainers of the Ubuntu-24.04 uxplay-1.68.2-1build2 package should update ASAP. (I am the uxplay maintainer.)

The bug usually, but not always, prevents uxplay from opening a video window, and is due to a change in video pause/resume in gstreamer-1.24.x.

The bug only affects uxplay when used with gstreamer-1.24.x (1.22.x is unaffected)

Our releases are quickly picked up by Debian, (currently for Trixie/Sid) and I think that is how they get to Ubuntu.

See http://github.com/FDH2/UxPlay/releases

$ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release: 24.04

pt-cache policy uxplay
uxplay:
  Installed: 1.68.2-1build2
  Candidate: 1.68.2-1build2
  Version table:
 *** 1.68.2-1build2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: uxplay 1.68.2-1build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Apr 24 02:51:44 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-04-24 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Beta amd64 (20240410.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: uxplay
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[F. Duncanh (fduncanh)]

typo in bug report: "uxplay 1.62.2" and "uxplay-1.62.3" should have been uxplay-1.68.2 and uxplay 1.68.3

[Lenin (gagarin)]

Hi Duncan, I'm the maintainer of Debian, where I can fix it, but I have no influence to Ubuntu freezes and updates...