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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
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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.
** Affects: totem
Importance: Unknown
Status: New
** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: Triaged
** Tags: mantic
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Drop Channels feature?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2028016
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