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Bug 770187 - no useful error when gstreamer decoder missing
no useful error when gstreamer decoder missing
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: Playback
2.6.2
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-08-21 06:25 UTC by deutrino
Modified: 2020-03-17 09:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description deutrino 2016-08-21 06:25:49 UTC 
When attempting to play a media file in Banshee for which no gstreamer decoder plugin is installed, no useful error message is produced, leaving the problem a complete mystery to the user.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS

Using Banshee without gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly installed, attempt to play an MP3 file in a set of MP3 files. Playback fails, a red "X" icon appears in the list of media, and (assuming the following files are also not supported), red "X" icons appear for the next 4 files, after which no more playback is attempted.

WHAT I EXPECT TO HAPPEN

A useful error message should pop up when attempting to play a file for which no usable decoder is installed.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2020-03-17 09:54:55 UTC 
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project
to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the
responsibility for active development again.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.