[Bug 945987] [NEW] No Settings are available in "Preferred format", only preset defaults are used

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= Transmageddon =

[ Description ]

Transmageddon ships gstreamer preset files in a shared directory,
/usr/share/gstreamer-0.10/presets. As these presets have fixed names,
this is unhelpful. An upstream commit included in 0.21 moves these to a
private location.

[ Development fix ]

Fixed in Quantal in an identical way.

[ Regression potential ]

If the fix doesn't work then it's possible that transmageddon won't be
able to find its presets and will not be able to encode anything.

[ Testing ]

There should be no functional difference. Test with both the old and new
transmageddon that you can still transcode some videos using a variety
of settings, and that the settings you choose are the ones which are
pplied.

= Rhythmbox =

[ Description ]

No encoding preset is shipped with Rhythmbox, meaning that subpar
defaults for encoding are selected.

[ Development Fix ]

Quantal's Rhythmbox has support for custom encoding settings. There,
we've shipped the same set of "ubuntu-default" presets, but have set the
default (in rhythmbox.gep) to use the user's selected custom settings.

[ SRU fix notes ]

We Break and Replace old transmageddons, which have a file conflict with
this version.

** Thus, the Rhythmbox SRU MUST NOT be accepted, both into -proposed and
-updates, without the transmageddon one. Otherwise we will introduce
upgrade failures. **

[ Regression potential ]

Perhaps the new settings will fail to apply and Rhythmbox will pick up a
worse set than it had before.

[ Testing ]

Rip a CD with the new Rhythmbox with the default settings and determine
that the quality and other encoder parameters are what they should be.

[ Original Description ]

This has been going on since 11.10 dev, maybe should be addressed

In Edit > Preferences, on the Music tab the Settings button for Preferred Format is greyed out & unavailable. So there is no user available means to adjust encoding for vorbis, mp3, mp4, ect.
Even using something like sound-juicer to change the very same 'Preferred.. '  is of no use, Rhythmbox doesn't  use.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.95-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar  3 19:25:18 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120302)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: gstreamer
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Incomplete

** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Iain Lane (laney)
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: transmageddon (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Iain Lane (laney)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: transmageddon (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise quantal
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No Settings are available in "Preferred  format", only preset defaults are used
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945987
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