Bug#833622: obs-studio: Fail to start with "Failed to create OpenGL context."

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: retitle -1 obs-studio: please provide better error message if required OpenGL version not available
Control: severity -1 wishlist

On 2016-08-07 19:50:05, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Sebastian Ramacher]
> > And what did you expect to happen when the Description contains "Note
> > that OBS Studio requires an OpenGL 3.2 compatible video card"?
> 
> I guess I expected some understandable error message letting me know
> what the problem was, for example listing which OpenGL version I had and
> which version I needed, given that I do not really know OpenGL version I
> got. :)
> 
> I would have been helped a lot by a message reporting for example this:
> 
>   Unable to run OBS because it need OpenGL version 3.2 and you only got
>   OpenGL version X.Y.
> 
>   You might need different video hardware for this to work.
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> I did not expect a popup stating 'Failed to initialize video:
> Unspecified error'.  That message is not really explaining much, and do
> not really provide any hint about what is the problem.

Retitling accordingly.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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