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Re: Is it possible to play videos on Ubuntu Touch?

 

Sam, I assigned the mediaplayer-app bug to Bill who's team is in charge of
maintaining mediaplayer-app. Hopefully they'll have an opinion for you on
this.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 18:16 +0800, Matthew Exon wrote:
> > I can scroll down and eventually find a video I shot myself.  If I tap
> > on that it opens a static preview image.  Then if I click on the play
> > button it opens a thing called "Media Player" which does not appear in
> > the Apps scope.  A media player is what I was looking for in the first
> > place, but this Media Player doesn't have any option to list or navigate
> > to other videos.  I guess it literally is just a pop up video window
> > rather than an actual Media application.
>
> It an actual application, but I guess it's been hidden from the apps
> scope (in the past launching it directly just gave an error anyway). The
> problem here, is that the media player still does not register itself
> with content-hub so that you can select it when trying to open a audio
> or video file.
>
> I registered a bug for this more than a year ago, and still has not been
> fixed. The app is somewhat useless without this being fixed.
>
> Feel free to comment on the bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mediaplayer-app/+bug/1346541
>
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