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-rw-r--r--gst/festival/gstfestival.c12
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 08b8120e..b40bc1d3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-07-09 Stefan Kost <ensonic@users.sf.net>
+
+ * gst/festival/gstfestival.c:
+ Add a note to the docs, that festival need to be running. Also log an
+ error it it is not. Fixes #541327
+
2008-07-08 Thijs Vermeir <thijsvermeir@gmail.com>
patch by: Ilja Pavkovic <illsen@gumblfarz.de>
diff --git a/gst/festival/gstfestival.c b/gst/festival/gstfestival.c
index f2ce45a6..d67c5403 100644
--- a/gst/festival/gstfestival.c
+++ b/gst/festival/gstfestival.c
@@ -64,13 +64,14 @@
* SECTION:element-festival
*
* This element connects to a
- * <ulink url="http://www.festvox.org/festival/index.html">festival</ulink> server
- * process and uses it to synthesize speech.
+ * <ulink url="http://www.festvox.org/festival/index.html">festival</ulink>
+ * server process and uses it to synthesize speech. Festival need to run already
+ * in server mode, started as <screen>festival --server</screen>
*
* <refsect2>
* <title>Example pipeline</title>
* |[
- * echo "hi" | gst-launch fdsrc fd=0 ! festival ! wavparse ! audioconvert ! alsasink
+ * echo 'Hello G-Streamer!' | gst-launch fdsrc fd=0 ! festival ! wavparse ! audioconvert ! alsasink
* ]|
* </refsect2>
*/
@@ -462,8 +463,11 @@ gst_festival_open (GstFestival * festival)
festival->info->server_fd =
festival_socket_open (festival->info->server_host,
festival->info->server_port);
- if (festival->info->server_fd == -1)
+ if (festival->info->server_fd == -1) {
+ GST_ERROR
+ ("Could not talk to festival server (no server running or wrong host/port?)");
return FALSE;
+ }
return TRUE;
}