Bug 217280

Summary:	Kaffeine error message is awful when playing file without necessary codecs installed
Product:	[Applications] kaffeine	Reporter:	Benjamin McCann <benjamin.j.mccann>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Benjamin McCann 2009-12-04 01:25:42 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

In openSUSE 11.2, Kaffeine displays a big red x with no useful error message when the user attempts to play a file without the necessary codecs installed, which by default is almost every media file (Screenshot: https://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=328843).  It would be much more usable for the error message to say that the codecs are not installed (and to suggest a solution such as installing libxine1-codecs)

Comment 1 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2016-06-06 00:26:06 UTC

This bug is too old, for a version < 1.3. Closing it, as the latest version is 2.0.1, and lots of things changed since version 1.2.x, including the usage of VLC as video display backend, support for DVB-T2 and ISDB-T via libVLC, etc.

You may check on the upstream version and see if the bug was solved. The README file contains instructions about how to compile it. You can find it at our git repository: 

https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kaffeine.git 

If you find similar issues with version 2.0.1, please re-open.