[Bug 67820] Re: Kaffeine fails silently on missing codecs

[Timothy Miller]

** Summary changed:

- Kaffeine unable to find installed codecs
+ Kaffeine fails silently on missing codecs

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: kaffeine
+ When Kaffeine is missing a codec, it fails silently.  For the new user,
+ there is no way to tell what's gone wrong, and no clues as to how to fix
+ it.
  
- Note that this is not a complaint about specific unsupported codecs.
- Also note that other people claim to have been able to get this working,
- so I hesitate to report this as a bug.  But there seems that there is a
- bug.
+ The only way to debug it is to use the --verbose option and skim through
+ gobs of irrelevant stuff, hoping that you'll know enough about codecs to
+ tell what's the error and what is not.
  
- I'm using Dapper, and I'd like to be able to play DivX 5 files.  I have
- installed the following packages:
- 
- - a bunch of codecs from mplayerhq
- - w32codecs
- - libavcodec-dev  (there is no libavcodec package)
- - Kaffeine and kaffeine-zine
- 
- As far as I and others can tell, I have done everything right, but it's
- still broken.  So there must be some problem with Kaffeine's ability to
- use installed codecs that is flaky, and I'm one of the unlucky ones.
+ Please add an error reporting facility that pops up and explains what
+ kind of codec is missing.

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Kaffeine fails silently on missing codecs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/67820