Multimedia player

AmauryDBZ

Hi,
I tried to play a movie on my phone (using convergence), the multimedia player starts but the movie never play.
This what I saw into logs :

[20/04/2025 21:15] virtual void AalMediaPlayerControl::play()
[20/04/2025 21:15] void AalMediaPlayerService::play()
[20/04/2025 21:15] Actually calling m_hubPlayerSession->play()
[20/04/2025 21:15] qml: onPositionChanged -140462611 -140462611 -140462.611
///lots of same line as the one above////
[20/04/2025 21:16] virtual void AalMediaPlayerControl::pause()
[20/04/2025 21:16] ** Application is now inactive
[20/04/2025 21:16] void AalMediaPlayerService::onServiceDisconnected()
[20/04/2025 21:16] qml: AbstractPlayer: 5:Player session is no longer valid since the service died.
[20/04/2025 21:16] file:///usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml/Lomiri/Components/Popups/1.2/Dialog.qml:154:5: QML StyledItem: Mixing of Lomiri.Components module versions 1.2 and 1.3 detected!
[20/04/2025 21:16] ** Application is now active
[20/04/2025 21:16] qml: Warning: Quitting app due to fatal playback error.

Any idea ?
Thanks

MrT10001

@AmauryDBZ Does the movie have Digital Rights management (DRM) active or has it been ripped?

AmauryDBZ

@MrT10001 no idea. How can I find out ?

MrT10001

@AmauryDBZ That is dependent on the source. If you downloaded it legally, it will probably have DRM which will make it difficult to play on open source media players and if you downloaded it the other way, DRM may have been removed. That is just one scenario.

AmauryDBZ

@MrT10001 ok then we can consider there is no DRM

MrT10001

@AmauryDBZ What file type?

AmauryDBZ

@MrT10001 .avi

arubislander

@AmauryDBZ and what codec?

MrT10001

Just played .mkv file fine, but .avi files would not play.

AmauryDBZ

@arubislander what is codec ?

AmauryDBZ

@MrT10001 said in Multimedia player:

Just played .mkv file fine, but .avi files would not play.

good to know then, I'll try .mkv

AmauryDBZ

Is there a list of supported format by multimedia player ?

arubislander

@AmauryDBZ Unfortunately that can differ per device as it depends on what codecs the device's hardware supports.

domubpkm

@arubislander Hello. Is there a command line thru terminal to see the codecs supported?

Vlad Nirky

@domubpkm
If you have waydroid installed, perhaps could you try (from F-Droid) VLC.
I have tested on my phone with an avi file and i works really well while not working with the UBT media player.
VLC is "special" and it comes with his own codecs and can play any file (or near).

Vlad Nirky

@AmauryDBZ
Codec is the way the file has been digitized..
Coder decoder
Right clic on file / properties
You should have something like this

AVI and MKV are containers.
There are codecs for video and audio parts of the film.
To transpose this in file process, if you compress a file with arj, you'll have to uncompress with arj. same as tgz, zip, 7z...

Vlad Nirky

@domubpkm
If you try waydroid, you can use waydroid helper from appstore to install.
Use the F-Droid repository and install VLC

You'll have to copy your avi file in /home/phablet/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Download/ for example.
for this, use a terminal
come in root mode: sudo su
and cp [youfilewithpath] /home/phablet/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Download/
Of course, it's not supported by Ubuntu Touch community, just a work around to get it working...