<sect1 id="howto-bug-reporting">
<title
>Bugs (programmafouten) melden</title>

<sect2 id="howto-bug-reporting-duplicates">
<title
>Checking for duplicate bugs</title>

<para
>Before you report a bug, please first make sure the bug has not been reported yet. Look through the list of <ulink url="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kplayer/kplayer/BUGS?rev=HEAD"
>known issues</ulink
>, then in the <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=532182&amp;group_id=71710"
>bug tracking system</ulink
>. Also look in <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=532183&amp;group_id=71710"
>support requests</ulink
>, <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=532185&amp;group_id=71710"
>feature requests</ulink
> and the <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244388"
>user forum</ulink
>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="howto-bug-reporting-submitting">
<title
>Submitting a bug</title>

<para
>Please report bugs through the <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=71710&amp;atid=532182"
>&kplayer; bug tracking system</ulink
>. Using SourceForge is much preferable over private e-mail, for it helps prevent duplicate requests.</para>

<para
>Wanneer u <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/account/login.php?return_to=%2Ftracker%3Ffunc%3Dadd%26group_id%3D71710%26atid%3D532182"
>een bugtapport indient</ulink
>, dan gaarne alle volgende informatie invoegen.</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem
><para
>De versies van alle relevante programma's die u gebruikt: <itemizedlist>

<listitem
><para
>&kplayer;,</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>&mplayer;,</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>&kde;,</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>Qt,</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>XFree,</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>the window manager, normally &kwin;.</para
></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</para
></listitem>

<listitem
><para
>&kplayer; debug log.</para>

<para
>Make sure your console history size is unlimited, for example in &konsole; go to <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Preferences</guimenu
> <guimenuitem
>History</guimenuitem
></menuchoice
> and set the <guilabel
>Unlimited</guilabel
> option.</para>

<para
>Run &kplayer; from the console. If the bug is in &kplayer;'s KPart, run the program that uses the KPart instead.</para>

<para
>Reproduce the bug.</para>

<para
>Then post on SourceForge whatever shows up on the console, clearly marking the point where the problem occurs.</para>

<para
>If the problem happened only once and you cannot reproduce it, you can look in the <filename
>~/.xsession-errors</filename
> file to see if it recorded the &kplayer; output when the problem occurred.</para>

<para
>If you are not getting any console output from &kplayer;, you may need to recompile &kplayer; with debug information. Follow the instructions in the <link linkend="howto-compilation"
>Compilation micro-HOWTO</link
> and give an additional <option
>--enable-debug=yes</option
> option to the <command
>configure</command
> script.</para>

<para
>The &kplayer; debug output includes &mplayer; messages. To make &mplayer; more verbose put a <option
>-v</option
> option in the <guilabel
>Additional command line arguments</guilabel
> field on the <link linkend="settings-advanced"
>Advanced page</link
> in <guilabel
>&kplayer; Settings</guilabel
>. You can repeat the option up to three times, separated by spaces, to get even more &mplayer; output.</para
></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect2>

</sect1>
