Bug#798713: arista: Useless − all it ever does is complain about ‘missing elements’

[Axel <axst@users.sourceforge.net>]

Package: arista
Version: 0.9.7-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

if you press ‘Help’, all you get is a referral to the Arista homepage, which in turn only
says “The easiest way to convert your media.”

Whatever source, destination or ‘device’ preset (should that read ‘output file format’
preset?) I choose, all the program ever does is open a window and say “Cannot add
conversion to queue because of missing elements!”. If started in a
terminal, it also reports:

arista.presets [435]: INFO Attempting to install elements: faac, ffdeinterlace
arista.presets [451]: ERROR Installing elements not supported!

No explanation is offered as to what an ‘element’ might be or why it needs to be
installed. All the help menu item does is refer to the program's website, which does not
contain the slightest hint towards documentation, instead offering the statement mentioned
above, which obviously eliminates the need for any kind of documentation.

An easy way to a dead end, I should say.

Please add all required dependencies. Trying to install ‘gnome-codec-install’ only results
in:

No candidate version found for gnome-codec-install

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages arista depends on:
ii  gnome-accessibility-themes  3.14.2.2-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme            3.12.0-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base  0.10.36-2
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good  0.10.31-3+nmu4+b1
ii  python                      2.7.9-1
ii  python-cairo                1.8.8-1+b2
ii  python-dbus                 1.2.0-2+b3
ii  python-gconf                2.28.1+dfsg-1.1
ii  python-gobject              3.14.0-1
ii  python-gst0.10              0.10.22-3
ii  python-gtk2                 2.24.0-4
ii  python-gudev                147.2-3
ii  python-simplejson           3.6.5-1

Versions of packages arista recommends:
pn  gnome-codec-install         <none>
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad   0.10.23-7.4
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly  0.10.19-2.1

Versions of packages arista suggests:
ii  python-notify  0.1.1-4
pn  python-webkit  <none>

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