Bug#706154: gecko-mediaplayer: claims that an additional plugin is needed, but standalone gnome-mplayer plays the video

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2013-04-26 17:40:46, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > It might be that there are some issues with the gconf to dconf switch.
> > I will need to investigate that a bit further.
> 
> I tried the following:
> 
>   $ mv -i ~/.config/dconf/user ~/tmp/
>   $ gnome-mplayer
> 
> and I checked the preferences: I found the emulation options *enabled*
> by default, as you said. Other options seemed to be different as
> well...
> 
> However, the issue with Windows Media Player videos seems to persist,
> even after this "trick".   :-(
> 
> As far as my settings are concerned, there seems to be some gconf→dconf
> migration issue or something else that made me get non-default option
> values.

Looks like it. There should be a folder named
~/.gconf/apps/gecko-mediaplayer containing %gconf.xml and
preferences/%gconf.xml. Is there anything suspicious in there, e.g. is
the WMP support disabled in one of these two files?

Thanks to the bug report I've discovered that gecko-mediaplayer still
ships the gconf schema. That's fixed in the git repository but I'm not
sure if that fixes this bug [1].

> Is there a way to merge this newly generated ~/.config/dconf/user file
> into the previous one?

I really don't know.

> Or should I *manually* annotate each gnome-mplayer configuration option
> and the corresponding default value and then *manually* set each option
> to the annotated value?!?

I guess dconf reset /apps/gecko-mediaplayer/ should reset everything to
the default values but haven't tried it myself.

Regards

[1] If you want to try a new package without the gconf schema, please
let me know and I can provide a primary package.
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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