None of the following applications play any media files:
Dragon Player
KMPlayer
Juk
When run in a terminal, here is what I get trying to open a .mp3 in Dragon Player:
$ dragon
Stopped state
updated actions
updated menus
set titles
seekable changed to false
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so'"
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/kate" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/x-ogg-avi" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/x-ogm-audio" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/x-ogm-video" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-alaw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-mulaw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-opus" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-raw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-unaligned-raw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "video/x-raw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "video/x-unaligned-raw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/kate" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/x-ogg-avi" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/x-ogm-audio" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "application/x-ogm-video" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-alaw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-mulaw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-opus" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-raw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "audio/x-unaligned-raw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "video/x-raw" is not a valid MIME type
kf.kio.filewidgets.kfilefiltercombo: "video/x-unaligned-raw" is not a valid MIME type
Opening QUrl("file:///home/pebcak/Music/Dire Straits/Alchemy.mp3")
detected mimetype: "audio/mpeg"
Initial offset is 0
chapters: 0 titles: 0
going from "Loading" to "Stopped"
Stopped state
updated actions
updated menus
set titles
KMPlayer:
$ kmplayer
QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h"
QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "help-all"
QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "v"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so'"
mplayer -wid 81789187 -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 /home/pebcak/Music/Dire Straits/Alchemy.mp3 -identify
mplayer -wid 81789232 -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 /home/pebcak/Music/Dire Straits/Alchemy.mp3 -identify
mplayer -wid 81789287 -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 /home/pebcak/Music/Dire Straits/Alchemy.mp3 -identify
Juk:
$ juk
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so'"
Reinstalling kio
doesn’t seem to help.
Elisa and VLC work just fine.
Any suggestion/pointer for solving the issue is highly appreciated.