FS#793 - GStreamer-based apps don't work

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 19:53 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 22 April 2004, 06:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Your Gstreamer-0.8 and its plugins are _seriously_ hosed. Both Totem and Rhythmbox don't work (they crash when trying to play from the Radio mp3 streams etc). I even tried to recompiled their new versions (with gstreamer backend) and they would still crash upon trying to play an online radio station or a local mp3. I tried changing the sinks and src with gstreamer-properties to OSS/ALSA/ESD, but no luck.

I then tried to recompile gstreamer 0.8.1 by myself, only to find out that libmad, musicbrainz and divx4linux and a slew of other plugins could not be found by the configure script, while these libs ARE installed on my machine. It seems the fact that you install gstreamer on /opt/gnome can't find all libraries installed on /usr/lib for some reason. Please fix. Not having multimedia capability on Arch is a huge minus for me.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 07:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 05:48 GMT
Try running gst-register as user. We have to find some way to run gst-register systemwide, but it seems running it as root in the postinstall script doesn't change a thing about it.
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 07:24 GMT
I _have_ ran gst-register the day I installed Arch. That's not the problem at all.

Rhythmbox gives me a number of different errors (it either gives me alerts, or exis without any warning, or full freeze etc) depending which radio station I am trying to run. The list of radio stations should have worked, they all work on my Slackware and Fedora.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 22 April 2004, 06:34 GMT
what kind of warnings ?
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 29 April 2004, 07:25 GMT
closing due to no feedback

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