GStreamer and amaroK problems on SuSE 9.3

cleidh_mor · 07-20-2005, 11:37 AM

Has anyone managed to get GStreamer working with amaroK on SuSE 9.3? I've installed the GStreamer plugin rpms and the GStreamer engine for amaroK and I can enable the engine ok in amaroK, but when I try and play a track, GStreamer complains that it can't find the audioconvert plugin. gst-inpsect doesn't find it either...

I'm using the SuSE 9.3 rpms from Guru's RPM Site

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,
Neil

cleidh_mor · 07-20-2005, 04:42 PM

Fixed it. It looks like Guru's RPMs were a wee bit out of date and YaST had some newer ones. Serves me right for not checking YaST in the first place, I suppose.

mkoljack · 07-21-2005, 03:03 PM

Also recommended after installing GStreamer you should register it's components:

running: 'su -c gst-register-0.8' should take care of registering your GStreamer components.

DESCRIPTION

gst-register is a tool that is used to register all the GStreamer plug-ins on your system. It creates a listing of their properties such that on startup of GStreamer based application do not need to load plugins until they need them.

cleidh_mor · 07-21-2005, 05:49 PM

Yeh, I tried running that a couple of times as my normal username. Interestingly, the gst-register program doesn't seem to be in root's path on my machine.

Also, the SuSE rpms don't seem to have come with any mpc support - when I try and add an mpc file to amaroK's playlist, it tells me that the media could not be played. If I change engine to arts, the same files play fine. Output of $gst-inspect | grep *mpc* gives:

Code:

$gst-inspect | grep mpc
typefindfunctions: audio/x-musepack: mpc
typefindfunctions: application/x-apetag: ape, mpc

Is there any way of manually adding plugins that you know of?

Cheers,
Cleidh Mor

mkoljack · 07-21-2005, 06:42 PM

You will get really specific help here:

http://amarok.kde.org/component/opti...ard/Itemid,57/

The amaroK developers answer questions here on a regular basis. There's a guy named Markey who is really awesome. Post your questions here. If they can't answer them, they will hook you into the folks at gstreamer.

cleidh_mor · 07-22-2005, 02:27 AM

Thanks Mark, I'll give that a shot.

Cheers,

Cleidh Mor

mkoljack · 07-22-2005, 02:35 AM

Cleidh--

I wish I could be more helpful to you. Good Luck.