Re: KDE Connect media player issue
On mercoledì 27 luglio 2016 14:10:47 CEST Sami Erjomaa wrote:
> On 27 July 2016 at 13:43, Valerio Passini wrote:
> > I've recently discovered this application and it's really amazing and
> > useful.
> > What is working not so good is the media remote control plugin, because
> > it's
> > not able to automatically detected if you are using a compatible media
> > player
> > like amarok or vlc (this should be documented somewhere). I've found a
> > workaround that consists in tinkering with KDE Connect options in
> > systemsettings: you need to disable and to enable multimedia control
> > receiver,
> > than on the smartphone app the media player will show and will be working.
> > I'm
> > guessing if this is a problem on the app side or on the KDE side, what I
> > know
> > it's that the app is complaining about the KDE counterpart being older.
> >
> > Valerio
>
> Hi,
>
> This is a bug in the computer side of the application.
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352529
> The application doesn't detect when a media player is started, only those
> that are running when the plugin is loaded.
>
> This is fixed in the 1.0 version that was released 4 days ago in the kde
> git. The 1.0 version source isn't released yet in
> http://download.kde.org/unstable/kdeconnect/. When it's released there it
> can be packaged for Debian.
Thanks for your reply and information.
Valerio
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