Yeah, none of the online "Channels" work. When switching to the "Channels" tab and trying to click any of the pre- installed online channels, none of them works:
- Clicking "Rai.tv" and opening on any of the categories causes Totem to crash on SIGSEGV. - Clicking "Apple Movie Trailers" causes lots of parser errors to be printed on stdout and Totem to hang. - Clicking "Euronews" displays an empty window. It would be the best to just remove them, sadly Totem has no active maintainer[1] and is on a basic "life support" now, and grilo-plugins also do not seem to be much active. Upstream tickets: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues/89 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues/90 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues/91 [1] https://www.hadess.net/2023/08/new-responsibilities.html ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues #89 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues/89 ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues #90 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues/90 ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues #91 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo-plugins/-/issues/91 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2028016 Title: Drop Channels feature? Status in Totem: New Status in totem package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Ubuntu's default video app, Totem, includes a Channels tab with 3 web video providers: - Apple Movie Trailers - Euronews - Rai.tv Screenshot attached. I recommend that we disable this feature because - These are somewhat obscure video sources - It can be unexpected to parents, school administrators, etc. for this app to be able to view web content - Perhaps most importantly, none of these 3 sources seemed to work today in my clean Ubuntu 23.04 install. + Apple Movie Trailers worked after I installed the additional media support which is offered in the Ubuntu installer (ubuntu-restricted-addons which specifically installs gstreamer1.0-libav) + Based on the errors shown in my terminal, it looks like Euronews either changed their API or it's no longer available. - If these channels can be broken and we aren't getting bug reports, are people actually even using this feature? Implementation -------------- This feature is enabled by some plugins shipped in totem's src/plugins . They can be disabled by the meson build. Also, totem depends on grilo-plugins-0.3-base which provides supporting files. None of the plugins works if that dependency is removed. We would then also need to patch Totem to no longer show the Channels page in the Totem app. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/totem/+bug/2028016/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
