Hello,

When I'm trying to play .wma files on clementine and it says Gstreamer misses a plugin. As far as I know the plugin missing is ffmpeg. However, I can't find it anywhere to make Clementine work properly, and it's starting to driving driving me nuts.

Any ideia how to solve it or work around?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, package ffmpeg is present in jessie-backports (deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main), so you may want to try it.

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Thank you.
The package is there alright. However it didn't solve clementine problem. I read that gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (no longer available) would solve this issue and I thought ffmpeg would work.

There are also libavcodec56, libavcodec-ffmpeg56, gstreamer1.0-libav, libavcodec56, libavformat56, libavutil54.

if it says it wants a gstreamer plugin, that's what you should install.
on my distro they're:
the package names should be similar on every distro.

As far as I know it's the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg plugin that I need, but it is no longer available for Debian Jessie.

just install all the gstreamer plugins available for your system.

Done that. Didn't work. Still missing a plugin... all I want is to play WMA files. :\

Have you tried playing them with something else, VLC, for example?

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All .wma or just one?

Never mind I get the same here... (8.4)

VLC plays them and so does Audacity so we could transcode (.ogg) or as others put add support for non-free formats.

Hi...

There is a solution mentioned for Ubuntu here, however, be advised this may not work at all on Debian and could possibly cause other problems.

Regards...

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Adding ppas to the Debian sources.list is not a real good idea.

Will use the Ubuntu install script in the .deb.

Ubuntu has done some changes to the file system. Some things are not installed in the same place and some are not linked to the same place as in Debian.

Really not a recommended thing to do.

While I do not at all recommend it you might get away with it. This should be, keeping in mind I have not had Ubuntu installed since the release day for 12.04 (last version I tested for), one of the safe ones.

What I would recommend is trying VLC unless this is something you can't stand, I know there are people that detest it, but it comes with its own stuff in the backend.

I would recommend enabling the;
www.deb-multimedia.org

repo for Debian8 as there are some packages for VLC there that Debian will not ship.

Putting that in your sources.list is enabling a 3rd party repo. So is enabling an Ubuntu ppa though. The .debs you get from www.deb-multimedia.org will be using a Debian installation script however.

Same guy has run that forever and is an actual member of the Debian Dev community too.

Another thing available in that repo is Deadbeef. I use it. I have it on Jessie for that matter. Don't know if I have gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg installed there or not. Don't use it much.

But here on testing (stoned.lizard) I do have;
tom@stoned:~$ apt-cache policy gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:
Installed: 1:0.10.13-dmo2
Candidate: 1:0.10.13-dmo2
Version table:
*** 1:0.10.13-dmo2 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This would be a safer thing to install than any ppa. But you would have to get it from the testing main repo. And it would be the same thing you got basically from jessie-backports.

I had to look up what a .wma was even so there is that to consider too.

Sound Converter is capable of dealing with them for transcoding particularly seeing how you have that backports package installed.

If you want to go that route put all the buggers in one directory and do them all at once. Fast and reliable tool.

Hi all...

That's a good point and I didn't realize that. While the OP could just download the .deb itself and try to install it that way, I'm not sure he/she wouldn't end up with the same problems you mentioned above.

So far, I'm not seeing any real solutions mentioned on Google for Debian....

Regards...

Thanks a million!!! You're the winner!
I downloaded the file from mc3man repo and it it's working like a charm!!! (I don't understand why they removed it from Debian Jessie repositories. Anyway...)

Thank you, folks, for you help!

Now I am saving the file into a pen in case I need it in the future.

Awesome, praise God! I'm glad it's working.

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Regards...