GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 380198
when playback fails, doesn't offer hints as to what formats are missing
Last modified: 2007-01-13 16:40:14 UTC
Please describe the problem: When playback of a stream fails, you only get a: ... Totem could not play file <whatever> Could not decode stream. ... dialog. It would be nice if it said what format it was unable to play, for reference later (and for help when finding plugins.) Steps to reproduce: 1. Attempt to play http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_h720p.mov 2. 3. Profit! Actual results: Error, as above. Expected results: Totem could not play file <whatever>. The necessary plugins to handle a QuickTime movie, avc1, MPEG-4 H.264 are not installed. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Streaming of the above file from http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_720p.mov also fails, might be related.
Versions: totem-2.16.3 gstreamer-0.10.10 gstreamer-plugins-0.10.4
The main problem at the moment is that we don't have a suitable string to show to the user. This will hopefully be resolved as a side-effect of bug #161922 though (even if the plugin-loading mechanism isn't used).
Should be fixed in totem SVN trunk (only works with gst-plugins-base CVS which will be gst-plugins-base 0.10.12 when it is released): 2007-01-13 Tim-Philipp Müller <tim at centricular dot net> * src/backend/bacon-video-widget-gst-0.10.c: (bvw_error_from_gst_error): When playback files because a required source or decoder plugin is missing, tell the user exactly what it is that they are missing in the error message (Closes: #380198).