[Bug 1035701] Re: grilo plugins should be enabled in Totem

[Florian W.]

Thanks Doug for your extensive plugin review. Maybe we should continue
this in a new grilo-plugins bug (I noticed we can report bugs at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grilo-plugins , is that a bad
idea?).

One of them might be an actual totem bug though: jamendo works in
rhythmbox (at least on 14.04). Though I noticed there is at least 1
empty folder called "Westing*House", not sure if that is a bug (related
to the non-alphanumeric character?) or if it's simply served empty by
jamendo. The other folders I tested work and I can listen to the
contained media.

I agree that screen-scraping youtube is probably a bad idea, if that's how the youtube plugin works.
I'm not opposed to disabling most of the apparently(?) under-maintained plugins after testing them in the special grilo browse test tool. Most of the content can easily be retrieved using a web browser. While it'd be nice to search and watch youtube through totem, it's almost impossible to listen to/watch DLNA shared media without a proper client. VLC has a strange "fetch all media from the media share before doing anything" implementation leading to a few minutes wait time before I can listen to my music, XBMC is not what I'm looking for, and the other clients I know need grilo.

While this bug and the rhythmbox bug have few "affects me too" clicks,
that's probably because the average user has no idea what grilo is, they
just want DLNA and from a quick google search, there's almost no DLNA
support in Ubuntu, so… :-) [Sorry for evangelizing all the time BTW. I'm
a big fan of UPnP, but I realize this might be annoying so I'll stop
now.]

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Title:
  grilo plugins should be enabled in Totem

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Triaged
Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I see no good reason why they're not. For the most part they all work, any that don't are a grilo bug, (like vimeo), & shouldn't affect being enabled.
  If sticking with 3.4.3/gstreamer .10/grilo 0.1 (0.1.2 is available) it would seem straightforward to enable & have installed
  (inc. it in totem-plugins here in a test rebuild

  If moving to totem 3.4.4+/gstreamer1.0/grilo 0.2 then have tested that
  here, works ok though ATM not as good as 0.1 , though again any grilo
  issies are grilo bugs

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: totem 3.4.3-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Aug 11 14:32:15 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120707)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: totem
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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