transcoding fail silently if codecs are not installed

[Alex Wauck]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I tried to transfer a FLAC file to my old iPod Shuffle. It didn't work, and the Rhythmbox interface gave no indication of what the problem was. Eventually, I figured out that I didn't have the AAC codec installed. After I installed the codec, the transfer worked.

Rhythmbox should tell the user if it needs a codec that it doesn't have.

Note: My installation was installed from Kubuntu 10.04, but I installed the ubuntu-desktop package later.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-020635rc5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jul 18 17:27:17 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's being tracked on bug 311296 , marking this as dup.