minitube hangs on start

Bug #1196169 reported by krishnan sampath
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
minitube (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

minitube starts, then on clicking a video immediately grays out. then it asks to be force closed. no videos playing in minitube from youtube

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: minitube 2.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-0.7-generic 3.10.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-0-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 30 07:08:26 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-21 (39 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130101)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: minitube
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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krishnan sampath (tskrishnan) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in minitube (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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robert shearer (bdaggg) wrote :

This bug has been around since 12.04. :-(

Workaround

In this order... install
phonon-backend-vlc

 then remove
 phonon-backend-gstreamer

restart Minitube

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