My quest for a Linux audio player (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

My quest for a Linux audio player (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 5, 2006 18:01 UTC (Wed) by thomasvs (guest, #36955)
In reply to: My quest for a Linux audio player (Linux.com) by bronson
Parent article: My quest for a Linux audio player (Linux.com)

wrt: That said, GStreamer could be a hell of a lot better with its error reporting. Most people here have probably seen Totem's: "Error! Video could not be played because: no error."

First of all, there has never been *any* dialog that has said this. You're probably over-simplifying for comic effect.

Second, the person who was maintaining the backend in the past repeatedly was told exactly what sort of things needed to be caught and displayed correctly. All the facilities were there in GStreamer, they were just being ignored by the implementer. This has since been fixed by other people. This is an application bug - without any changes to GStreamer Totem now shows decent error messages.

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