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Bug 420702 - No error message when no usable transcoder is found
No error message when no usable transcoder is found
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 404698
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: Removable Media
0.9.8
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-03-20 20:38 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2007-03-21 10:45 UTC
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Description Adam Williamson 2007-03-20 20:38:01 UTC 
When the user drags a file to a removable device that's in a format the device can't support, rhythmbox tries to construct a gstreamer pipeline to convert the file to a format the device can support. If it cannot construct such a pipeline, it simply fails silently.

It should really give some kind of error message alerting the user to the issue. This silent failure made me think the feature had somehow become broken, for a while: it was only when I ran rhythmbox from a console with the debug output enabled that I saw the error message indicating it couldn't find a usable transcoder, and remembered I hadn't installed gstreamer-lame since reinstalling my OS a few weeks back. A simple error message would have helped enormously.

Other information:
Comment 1 James "Doc" Livingston 2007-03-21 06:45:56 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

I'd forgotten about that, but will make sure it's fixed before the 0.10 release (which will be 0.9.8 + bug fixes).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 404698 ***
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2007-03-21 10:45:20 UTC 
owch, I'm sorry, I forgot to check for dupes. Bad. Thanks.