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[Pedro Villavicencio <pedro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Totem does not implement DBus standrad for MediaPlayer.

Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: totem

  Hello,
  I have an application that needs to interact with various media players. This application uses DBus to watch signals that media players send.

  Many good media players (like Amarok and Guayadeque player) now
  implement the DBus API and standard well, but Totem seems to lag
  behind development. AFAIK, Totem does not use DBus to inform other
  applications about its doings.

  My application wants to track the media players' "TrackChange"
  signal/message on the DBus.

  Dbus-monitor is a nice tool to peek what messages applications send to/via DBus. 
  Start dbus-monitor
  $ dbus-monitor 

  Here is a typical output of a standards following media player. 
  The output shows a "TrackChange" signal on the DBus. It is sent when media player changes to a new song/radio-channel or track.

  Signal sender=:1.477 -> dest=(null destination) serial=65 path=/Player; interface=org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer; member=TrackChange
         array [
            dict entry(
               string "location"
               variant             string "file://http://38.108.111.24:8002";
            )
            dict entry(
               string "title"
               variant             string "There s a kind of hush"
            )
            dict entry(
               string "artist"
               variant             string "HERMANS HERMITS"
            )
            dict entry(
               string "album"
               variant             string "Flower Power Oldies - We play the groovy tunes you love from the 50s, 60s and 70s"
            )
            dict entry(
               string "tracknumber"
               variant             int32 1819045746
            )
            dict entry(
               string "genre"
               variant             string "50s 60s 70s oldies"
            )
         ]

  Other applications can catch and react to this message.

  Important links:
  http://www.mpris.org/1.0/spec.html
  http://wiki.videolan.org/DBus-spec  (the spec)
  http://dbus.freedesktop.org

  BTW: RhythmBox does use DBus but the interface and signal names are totally different from standard.
  I think its interface name is "org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Player" instead of standard's "org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer"
  and eg. it calls "TrackChange" signal for "playingUriChanged".  Anyhow, you can easily check these things with dbus-monitor.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: totem 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic-pae 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Sep 18 17:48:30 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: totem

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