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lettier / movie-monad

:tv: A free and simple to use video player made with Haskell.
https://lettier.github.io/movie-monad
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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AppImage does not run out of the box #8

Closed probonopd closed 6 years ago

probonopd commented 6 years ago

The AppImage does not run on an Ubuntu 14.04 system out of the box:

(movie-monad:4): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set property GtkButtonBox.layout-style to expand: Could not parse enum: `expand'
Could not create a GtkSink. Please install the bad plugins, version 1.8 or higher, for GStreamer 1.
movie-monad: Maybe.fromJust: Nothing
Parent pid 7340, child pid 7344

It would be nice if it would at least run, then show a GUI dialog instructing the user what to do. Alternatively, could attempt to bundle GStreamer and the required plugins inside the AppImage.

Reference: https://travis-ci.org/AppImage/appimage.github.io/builds/294387373#L711-L713

lettier commented 6 years ago

Hello @probonopd

The GUI window will still proceed to open even if the plugins are not found. That message is just sent to standard out before the window opens. You can see this happening in the screenshot below.

screenshot_2017-10-29_05-54-22

And then, as you suggested, it will display a dialog box explaining the situation when the user attempts to play a video.

screenshot_2017-10-29_05-59-10

Still, I haven't given up on bundling the dependencies as we discussed in https://github.com/lettier/movie-monad/issues/5. Hoping to tackle this soon.

:+1:

probonopd commented 6 years ago

Thank you very much for the heads-up. Somehow my automated test script doesn't find any window on the screen but I guess I need to figure out why this is.