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Bug 397196 - rhythmbox error report "Unknown playback error" needs improvement
rhythmbox error report "Unknown playback error" needs improvement
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.9.7
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-16 10:15 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2009-05-23 11:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch by Bryce Harrington <bryce@bryceharrington.org> (1.62 KB, patch)
2007-01-16 10:18 UTC, Sebastien Bacher 		none Details | Review

Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-01-16 10:15:39 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/79445

"Binary package hint: rhythmbox

A common error message reported by rhythmbox is "Unknown playback error", which isn't very illuminating or helpful.

Looking through the codebase, there are three different codepaths that can generate this error message. Attached is a patch to improve the error message to help in narrowing down which of the codepaths hit the error.

http://librarian.launchpad.net/5762046/rb-player-errormsgs.diff
Improvement to some error messages in Rhythmbox

Btw, this is against 0.9.7-ubuntu4 and tested on feisty."


Note that there is already bug #344434 about one particular case for that
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2007-01-16 10:18:33 UTC 
Created attachment 80374 [details] [review]
patch by Bryce Harrington <bryce@bryceharrington.org>

That's the patch attached to the launchpad page
Comment 2 James "Doc" Livingston 2007-01-31 09:47:45 UTC 
I'm not entirely certain that "Failed to sync gstreamer pipeline in open operation" or "Failed to set gstreamer element state" is any more enlightening than "Unknown playback error" for most people. It would also mean that translators have to translate those too.
Comment 3 Jonathan Matthew 2009-05-23 11:42:19 UTC 
The new playbin2 player backend does not include these strings.