| 2006-10-23 19:59:35 |
Timothy Miller |
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Binary package hint: kaffeine
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Please add an error reporting facility that pops up and explains what kind of codec is missing.
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