How to activate DBus-interface in the VLC media-player?

[moma]

EDIT: This issue was solved by updating VLC from a PPA (package archive).
Ref: https://launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/master-daily
Let's hope Ubuntu will update its final version of VLC from this PPA.
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Hello,
How do I activate DBus-interface in the VLC media-player?
I want VLC to show up in the sound-menu. Also audio-recorder needs messages from the DBus.

Earlier it was easy to set via VLC's menu:
Tools -> Preferences -> Show all -> Interface -> Control Interface and Enable DBus.

But I cannot find this option anymore.

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) \n \l

$ vlc --version
VLC media player 2.0.5 Twoflower (revision 2.0.5-0-g1661b7d)

Audio-recorder:
https://launchpad.net/audio-recorder

[zika]

Hello,
How do I activate DBus-interface in the VLC media-player?
I want VLC to show up in the sound-menu. Also audio-recorder needs messages from the DBus.

Earlier it was easy to set via VLC's menu:
Tools -> Preferences -> Show all -> Interface -> Control Interface and Enable DBus.

But I cannot find this option anymore.

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) \n \l

$ vlc --version
VLC media player 2.0.5 Twoflower (revision 2.0.5-0-g1661b7d)

Audio-recorder:
https://launchpad.net/audio-recorder

Is it:

/usr/bin/vlc -I dummy --control dbus

...?
I've just checked and it is open by default in GS...

[mc4man]

it should be auto-enabled. If not then do so in in dconf (dconf-editor >
com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players

(sometimes in lieu of above just opening vlc > tools > preferences, changing anything & saving that change will add vlc to sound menu next time opened

edit: for reference - http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=107797

[moma]

Ok, thank you.

This works fine:
$ vlc --control dbus
Sound-menu now shows all controls for VLC. Good.
Audio-recorder also receives correct messages form VLC.

But when I close VLC, the sound-menu still (correctly) displays "VLC media player". If I start VLC from it, the player obviously fires without "--control dbus" option and looses its Dbus-capability (and the controls won't work).

VLC should absolutely have a permanent option for the sound-menu (for the DBus). This is not going to work. Something has gone wrong.

Many applications except to see MPRIS2-messages (like org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc) on the DBus.

@mc4man: Thanks for the link. That explains a lot.
"vlc" is already in the interested-media-players list. I even tried "vlc --control dbus".

[mc4man]

You could test some of the simple (supported??) with either types -
Ex.'s, add a few tracks to vlc

qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Play
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Pause

ect.

or the variant -

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous

ect.

[moma]

Hello,
The commands of course fail when VLC is started without DBus-interface.
$ vlc

$ qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop

Service 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc' does not exist.
etc. many similar error messages.
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The commands works well if VLC is started with --control dbus.
$ vlc --control dbus

$ qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Play

All these work: Play,Stop,Pause,Next,Previous

Also this:
$ qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Quit
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So the question is: Will Ubuntu 13.04 come with VLC whose DBus-interface is auto-enabled? This is a very important issue. VLC cannot integrate with Unity (and its sound-menu or audio-recorder of all!) without DBus.

[mc4man]

So VLC should absolutely have a permanent option for the sound-menu (for the DBus). This is not going to work. Something has gone wrong.

Many applications except to see MPRIS2-messages (like org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc) on the DBus.

@mc4man: Thanks for the link. That explains a lot.
"vlc" is already in the interested-media-players list. I even tried "vlc --control dbus".

Vlc is permanent here, only seen as 'vlc', in dconf (screen

have you tried a log out after adding to dconf?

[moma]

Re-hi,
Yes, I just did re-login. The login-screen has started to speak

No change. The "vlc" command itself fails to activate DBus. So does the sound-menu.



I have installed various media-players to test the audio-recorder for Raring. Looks good.
EOL.

[mc4man]

Try a little experiment -
(you could use a hatchet job on your current user, ie. move ~/.config/dconf/user to a .bak, & remove ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc, log out/in, ect. but try instead -

Set up a new user (apologizes for gnome dev's thinking a 9 char password is needed..
Log in to new user, open vlc > tools > pref's, enable something like 'one instance', save, close vlc.
log out/in, is vlc in the sound menu?

[zika]

So the question is: Will Ubuntu 13.04 come with VLC whose DBus-interface is auto-enabled? This is a very important issue. VLC cannot integrate with Unity (and its sound-menu or audio-recorder of all!) without DBus.

It does on this machine... As I said already...