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Re: Media Player

 

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 2:48 PM, sturmflut <sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ted,
>
>
> Am 20.04.2015 um 15:24 schrieb Ted Gould:
> > On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 11:43 +0200, sturmflut wrote:
> >> Apps are launched via the "ubuntu-app-launch" command. The following
> >> example should point in the right direction:
> >>
> >> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ubuntu-app-launch mediaplayer-app
> >> video:///home/phablet/Videos/big_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.ogg
> >>
> >> This mechanism isn't very stable on my phone though.
> >
> > What are the symptoms you see of it not being very stable? It should be
> > the same as launching an app in the shell or anywhere else.
>
>
> Looks like I brought this upon myself while debugging bug 1295062, I
> have since restarted the phone and cannot reproduce the issue. But I
> found out another interesting thing:
>
> If I launch the mediaplayer-app manually from within phablet-shell, and
> then launch it again with the same file while it is already playing,
> playback stops. I would've expected that playback restarts from the
> beginning or just continues.
>

That's a completely unsupported scenario. If you launch from the shell,
you'll notice that it does the proper thing and continues playing where the
video playback session was paused at.

Jim


>
>
> kind regards,
> Simon
>
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