Bug 22410

Summary:	Media channel: need better error reporting
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes>
Component:	tp-spec	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	major
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2009-06-22 03:22:23 UTC

Empathy currently can't display a message when a video call fails because of a codec issue.

From http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576380 :

"There StreamHandler interface has a single error
number "Unknown", so its impossible to transmitter the various problems to the
CM/UI."

Comment 1 Will Thompson 2009-06-22 03:36:12 UTC

We could add a bunch of new Media_Stream_Errors, but indeed we can't say *which* codecs were missing.

Here's a bad idea: maybe Empathy could secretly listen to the StreamHandlers' signals so it knows what codecs the peer supports, and infer from Media_Stream_Error_No_Supported_Codecs that the error message should list them?

Comment 2 Olivier Crête 2009-07-29 08:24:16 UTC

The solution for "need codec" problems is to implement Gst Missing plugins in Farstream.

Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2010-11-09 09:06:03 UTC

Is this still a problem in Call? If not, let's WONTFIX it.

Comment 4 Alberto Salvia Novella 2014-11-28 20:25:39 UTC

This bug has made the default GNOME desktop unusable for video conference for me for 6 years.

Comment 5 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:18:10 UTC

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