Bug 449876

Summary:	gnome desktop does not recognise vlc or realplayer as media player applications
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David <webmaster>
Component:	control-center	Assignee:	Control Center Maintainer <control-center-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	9	CC:	bnocera, peeter.as, rstrode
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Description David 2008-06-04 02:44:01 UTC

Description of problem:
gnome desktop does not recognise vlc or realplayer as media player applications.

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Comment 1 David 2008-06-05 02:18:12 UTC

gnome 2.22-3 has been released can we PLEASE get this packaged into updates-testing ASAP to 
resolve this issue.

Comment 2 David 2008-06-06 01:06:11 UTC

Any update on getting the latest gnome built for F9 testing? The desktop is unuseable as you can't 
select other applications other than rhythmbox and totem. This is a known bug in gnome so we need 
to be building these updates as they are released.

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2008-06-27 10:45:41 UTC

That's a control-center problem. You can modify
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/gnome-default-applications.xml to add media
players by adding the lines:
    <media-player>
      <name>Name of media player</name>
      <executable>executable</executable>
      <command>executable</command>
      <icon-name>icon-name</icon-name>
      <run-in-terminal>false</run-in-terminal>
    </media-player>
for each media player inside the <media-players> section.

Let us know what you added for VLC and Realplayer.

Comment 4 David 2008-06-27 11:26:22 UTC

Thanks that's a great help :)

Any idea when the next update for gnome will be pushed to koji and then
updates-testing?

I know 2.22.3 is  July 2 for Stable Release

Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2008-06-27 20:15:06 UTC

Why would that matter, it's not fixed either upstream or downstream.

We need to know what to add to the definitions, otherwise we'll never have them...

Comment 6 David 2008-06-28 07:57:06 UTC

Its been added to the VLC package, some new definition is required for the
desktop files for the media players:

edit /usr/share/applications/realplay.desktop

Add this to the mimes...
;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/audio-player;

Save it and then:

update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications

There was a fix done in vlc update that had new desktop files.

Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2008-06-28 11:50:54 UTC

If you're talking about having those applications being registered for
auto-launch in nautilus, then there's nothing that we can do. It's up to the
providers of those packages to add the necessary mime-types.

If you want those media players added to the default applications preferences,
please file a new bug with the additions you made to the
gnome-default-applications.xml file.