[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 610449] New: codec autodetection does not always work

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610449
  GStreamer | gst-plugins | 0.10.26

           Summary: codec autodetection does not always work
    Classification: Desktop
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.10.26
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: nekohayo at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
      GNOME target: ---
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http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/gstreamer-codec-autodetection/
You should be looking mainly at folder #4 and #2, and then #3 optionally (I
filed a pitivi-specific bug about category #3 in bug #610325).

Is a collection of video samples that I put together. They work and playback
fine in totem (and pitivi, usually) if you have the proper gst plugins (good,
bad, ugly, ffmpeg...) installed.

The problem is that if you don't have them installed, some of those media files
will not be properly detected by the codec installer thingy. So this means that
users who don't really know gstreamer will try to open them and get the
following two types of error messages:

http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/gstreamer-codec-autodetection/generic%20gst%20codec%20error.png

http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/gstreamer-codec-autodetection/generic%20gst%20codec%20error,%20alternate%20version.png

And they might give up, thinking that gstreamer just doesn't support those
files.

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