Parole does not show video when playing DVD

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1513277

Seeing similar here - change display type in preferences from clutter.

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

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:11 AM, flocculant <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Seeing similar here - change display type in preferences from clutter.
>
> Thanks for checking

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> Title:
> Parole does not show video when playing DVD
>
> Status in parole package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When a video DVD was inserted, parole was able to play the media but
> only sound was heard, no video was shown. The only thing that was
> shown was a green box. Sound played in the background. Video codecs
> were installed.
>
> parole:
> Installed: 0.8.1-0ubuntu1
> Candidate: 0.8.1-0ubuntu1
> Version table:
> *** 0.8.1-0ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial/universe i386
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
> Release: 16.04
> Codename: xenial
>
> Screenshot of parole is included in this bug report
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: parole 0.8.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-11.13-generic 4.2.1
> Uname: Linux 4.2.0-11-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Nov 4 20:19:01 2015
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-18 (170 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha i386 (20150517)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: parole
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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This was related to the broken Clutter video backend. This was disabled in Xenial and onward.

parole (0.8.1-1ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Disable clutter backend, broken in xenial.
    - debian/control
    - debian/rules

 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:40:18 -0400