Re: Dragon Player doesn't

[harryweaver@tutanota.com]

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8 Sep 2021, 13:16 by gary@extremeground.com:

> On 2021-09-07 21:21, piorunz wrote:
>
>> On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now.
>>> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon
>>> Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file.
>>> When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video
>>> to play, but again it doesn't play it.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it?
>>>
>>
>> I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it say?
>>
> Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this sequence:
> WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to  Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ).
> WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
>
> WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to  Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
>
> Along with numerous other messages, including several similar to:
>
> kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so'"
>
Dragonplayer is part of the KDE set up.
I installed Falkon and couldn't understand why it had almost zero configuration options.
It wasn't until I installed konq-plugins they finally appeared.
I think KDE needs to pick up its game a little, in its ability to pull in dependencies.
Needing to do a full KDE install in order to run a browser or video player is a little too much to expect, and having to hunt around for obscure necessities harks back to the dark ages, somewhat.
Cheers!

Harry