Ubuntu
totem package

usubility bug: searches 2 times for a codec

Bug #192691 reported by Stijn Gysemans
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
totem (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

information:
On a ubuntu system (hardy), without any audio or video codecs installed, totem installs the video and audio codecs separately. The audiofile I wanted to play was an mms: wmv stream. It first asked me to install a video codec (automatially search for codec: yes), which is installed perfectly, afterwards totem asks me again to search for a codec (this time he installs the audio package). This is confusion for novices.

what should happen:
Totem should scan the file for both audio and video codecs and should install both at the same time.

version:
hardy

Murat Gunes (mgunes)
Changed in totem:
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. There is some cases where that's not possible because you a codec is required to decode some informations and know that another codec is required

Changed in totem:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Invalid
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Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote :

Sebastien, isn't "Won't Fix" a better status if this is the case here?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Not sure, that's not a bug just that technically it requires a retry

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Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote :

But by the definition of the report (which should be the guide when setting the status), it's a usability issue: from a usability standpoint, ideally it should search both at once, but since this is not technically possible/feasible at this point, there won't be a fix. "Won't Fix" corresponds to this as I interpret it.

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