Problem: When starting PMC directly with a file, the Welcome screen is shown instead of the correct view

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Wed Aug 14 21:54:12 UTC 2013


On Wednesday 14 August 2013 23:34:30 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 August 2013, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > We have a problem: When starting Plasma Mediacenter by opening an audio or
> > video file, the file is played in the background of the start screen (with
> > the media type selection) instead of the correct UI for the file type.
> > This bug was already reported a while ago (
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320239 ), was fixed and it worked in
> > Devel, but now on the stable image, the problem is back.
> > This makes playing videos directly by opening a file pretty much useless
> > (no controls, media categories always overlaying the video), and that's
> > especially problematic if we want users to download and play instructional
> > videos from the website.
> > Do we use a version of PMC in PA4 that does not have the fix?
> 
> try to zypper up, i tried to put the latest pmc in.
> it may be better or worse, can still be redowngraded in case it doesn't
> behave

It's half way there: Now the correct UI is opened and you can hear the audio, 
but you cannot see the video. Tapping the back button shows the video with 
start screen overlay, tapping the corner again finally shows the video with the 
correct UI.


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