Wheezy: dragon player not working with phonon-backend-gstreamer?

[T Elcor <telcor@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I used dragon player with phonon-backend-xine and it was working fine. However, since phonon-backend-xine had been deprecated in wheezy, I installed phonon-backend-gstreamer and removed phonon-backend-xine. The result is that dragon player is no longer able to play videos (mp4s), dragon player starts up and just shows blank square instead of the video. Tried the vlc backed with the same non-working result.

Any ideas? Thanks


$ aptitude show dragonplayer
Package: dragonplayer                    
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 4:4.7.4-2
Priority: optional
Section: video


$ aptitude show  phonon-backend-gstreamer
Package: phonon-backend-gstreamer        
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 4:4.6.0.0-1
Priority: optional