Some recent update apparently broke the media controller integration with the VLC media player. Playback can be paused, but can’t be resumed using either the tray applet or the “Play/Pause media playback” keyboard shortcut. The play button in the tray applet is greyed out.
It used to work perfectly in the past and I haven’t changed any relevant settings in either VLC or KDE. Does anyone have an idea about what the problem could be?
KDE Plasma 6.1.2
VLC 3.0.21
Same here.
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240716
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.9-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9850H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 125.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G6
Same here too, but I’ve noticed that I can use the play button from another computer by using KDE Connect, since the play button isn’t getting greyed out (but with KDE Connect on Android it still gets greyed out).
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.10-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i5-10600K CPU @ 4.10GHz
Memory: 31.2 Gio of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS
I found an interesting thing, this issue only happens when you open vlc with a file directly like $ vlc file.mp4 or when you open a media file with vlc in dolphin, but if you open vlc without any file and then you open the file with “Media > Open file”, pause and resume work perfectly, the same for directories also.
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.4-arch2-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7600K CPU @ 3.80GHz
Memory: 23.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Pro 580X
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Product Name: iMac18,3
System Version: 1.0
VLC Version 3.0.21
any work around found so far?
Hi - there’s an existing KDE Bugzilla bug around this topic here: 490569 – Regression: VLC media playback controls are partially broken (tray widget and keyboard controls)
