Subject: bug#645: parole: would not play mp4 video file

From: kapqa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:55:11 +0100

Package: parole
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email-masked]

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

opening video,
mp4 file in devuan 4.0 with standard video player "parole"
only audio is played,, no video shown.

https://imgur.com/YjFcmlT.png

same issue on ubuntu 20.04 where standard player is called "videos"

tried to install video codec, to no avail.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release:        4
Codename:       chimaera
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages parole depends on:
ii  gstreamer1.0-alsa [gstreamer1.0-audiosink]          1.18.4-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav                                  1.18.4-3
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad [gstreamer1.0-audiosink]   1.18.4-3
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base                           1.18.4-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good [gstreamer1.0-audiosink]  1.18.4-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-x                                      1.18.4-2
ii  libc6                                               2.31-13+deb11u2
ii  libcairo2                                           1.16.0-5
ii  libdbus-1-3                                         1.12.20-2+devuan2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                                    0.110-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                                 2.42.2+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                        2.66.8-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0                      1.18.4-2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                                   1.18.4-2.1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                          3.24.24-4
ii  libnotify4                                          0.7.9-3
ii  libtagc0                                            1.11.1+dfsg.1-3
ii  libx11-6                                            2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxfce4ui-2-0                                      4.16.0-1
ii  libxfce4util7                                       4.16.0-1
ii  libxfconf-0-3                                       4.16.0-2

parole recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parole suggests:
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad   1.18.4-3
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly  1.18.4-2