[PyQt] PyQt5 5.10 regression defaultServiceProvider::requestService(): ...

[Kyle Altendorf]

On 2018-04-30 14:04, Mandeep wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On Debian based systems (possibly other distributions as well), there 
> seems to be a regression in PyQt5 version 5.10 installed via pip in a 
> virtualenv (specifically 
> PyQt5-5.10.1-5.10.1-cp35.cp36.cp37.cp38-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl). In 
> a terminal when opening a PyQt5 application that uses QMediaPlayer, the 
> following error is displayed with audio unavailable: 
> defaultServiceProvider::requestService(): no service found for - 
> "org.qt-project.qt.mediaplayer".  When instructing pip to install 
> pyqt5==5.9 (PyQt5-5.9-5.9.1-cp35.cp36.cp37-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl), 
> the error does not appear and audio works as intended.

Here's a Gist Mandeep wanted shared (was on digest so didn't have an 
email to reply to yet).

https://gist.github.com/mandeep/03ab075d5ed300710048910941bf7f80