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williamkray

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Registered: 2010-11-06

Posts: 64

[SOLVED] gstreamer error in banshee/totem

my audio seems to work just fine, system sounds work, and cmus seems to play everything i throw at it.  but gstreamer doesn't seem to be working, and all i get are cryptic errors.  when i start banshee from the command line, the only error i get is:

[Error 20:55:41.325] GStreamer stream error: Failed

and the music doesn't play.  totem gives me a similar and equally useless error message.  i have attempted to play both mp3 and m4a files, haven't tried ogg or any other formats.  i have also tried compiling gstreamer0.10 from abs and installing from there, as i saw someone else claimed this helped.  it obviously didn't work for me.

any ideas out there in the archosphere?

Last edited by williamkray (2011-05-23 00:37:30)

ejfdebruijn

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Registered: 2011-05-22

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] gstreamer error in banshee/totem

I had also some problems with totem and gstreamer. Totem wasn't playing any file. Searching for an anwser I came across the following link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Codecs. The command "pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins" did the trick for me! Maby it helps for you.

williamkray

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Registered: 2010-11-06

Posts: 64

Re: [SOLVED] gstreamer error in banshee/totem

well thanks, i guess i was missing some packages. that did it! i had tried installing other gstreamer packages, but never did an "everything in the plugin group" install.