[SOLVED... kinda] Clementine refuses to play mp4 AAC (missing plugin)

Wintershade · 2011-06-14 14:38:47

When I try playing an AAC audio file (wrapped in MP4 container, i.e. .mp4 or .m4a) in Clementine, I get a message saying "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."
I've checked my GStreamer installation, and (just in case) re-installed the gstreamer plugins (base, good, bad and ugly ones, respectively), however I get the same error message.
What's even more odd (at least for me, lol) is that Clementine reads the tags in the audio file properly.

Anyone have any ideas what the problem might be, and how to solve it? Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Wintershade (2011-06-23 21:01:07)

oboedad55 · 2011-06-14 15:53:13

Have you installed faac and faad2?

Wintershade · 2011-06-14 16:24:40

faac and faad2 were installed. I tried re-installing them as well. Same thing, GStreamer is missing a plug-in.

oboedad55 · 2011-06-14 16:28:53

Odd. I have everything installed like you do and can play those files. I'll have to meditate on it some more...

Wintershade · 2011-06-14 17:26:04

Would be sincerely grateful. To you or anyone else. I really like Clementine, and would hate to have to switch just because of that

oboedad55 · 2011-06-14 19:24:56

Is there any way you could send me one of the files that won't play? I doubt it's a Clementine issue, more likely a plugin. Which DE or WM are you using?

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Wintershade · 2011-06-14 20:04:17

There, I've generated 10 seconds of white noise and encoded it into aac wrapped in mp4. If I load it in Clementine, the above mentioned error occurs.
The file is located at:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y9mcjj33z272a91

edit: I'm using KDE

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oboedad55 · 2011-06-14 20:12:32

Works for me on Clementine, I use also KDE. Try this; "pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins". For me it pulls in the ones you mentioned as well as ffmpeg.

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Wintershade · 2011-06-14 21:05:07

same thing

oboedad55 · 2011-06-14 21:09:12

Bummer... I don't suppose things work in a different player? Makes no sense, but it is a computer. BTW, are you using pulseaudio or alsa? Do you have this?

pacman -Qs libmp4
local/libmp4v2 1.9.1-1
MPEG-4 library

I'm pretty sure that faad2 is what you need. You have lame installed?

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Wintershade · 2011-06-14 21:20:50

I have both libmp4 and lame. Tried playing back in Exaile, and got the same error.

edit: I'm using PulseAudio...

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oboedad55 · 2011-06-14 21:59:18

Grrr... I googled the heck out it and couldn't find anything you haven't tried. I'll keep my thinking cap on and if I find anything I'll post here.

Wintershade · 2011-06-14 22:55:58

I googled myself quite a bit, before posting the question here. If you come up against something, please do tell, and I will do so as well if I find something.
Thanks a lot for all your effort, man.

oboedad55 · 2011-06-14 23:21:55

Any time man, just wish I could help you solve it. I know the frustration!

Ari'osika · 2011-06-15 06:17:48

I'm gonna throw this one out there.. but have you tried installing

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2697

From the AUR? I had a similar issue with Clementine and it seems to have worked for me.

oboedad55 · 2011-06-15 06:24:27

Good idea. I should mention too, that I'm using the svn version of Clementine from the AUR as the normal version doesn't see my iPod.

Wintershade · 2011-06-15 07:30:29

Tried installing the codecs package from AUR, and got the same result.
I should mention, however, that I'm using the 64-bit version of Arch Linux and that I had to edit the PKGBUILD to add the

arch=('i686' 'x86_64')

line instead of just

arch=('i686')

I'm currently using Clementine from [community] cos the svn version doesn't compile for me atm

oboedad55 · 2011-06-15 07:35:15

Just for laughs, have you tried with a different player?

Wintershade · 2011-06-15 08:13:30

Tried with Exaile, which is also GStreamer-based. Doesn't work.
Opened in Audacity and MPlayer - works perfectly there

geekux · 2011-06-15 17:50:32

Same problem for me, started a couple of weeks ago.

karol · 2011-06-15 18:10:26

geekux wrote:

Same problem for me, started a couple of weeks ago.

Maybe it's related to faac support in ffmpeg http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 19906.html

skottish · 2011-06-16 03:56:26

karol wrote:

geekux wrote:
Same problem for me, started a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe it's related to faac support in ffmpeg http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 19906.html

FAAC is an encoder, not a decoder. Gstreamer moved from FAAD (the decoder) a while back. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg should handle AAC just fine. I don't use any Arch package for this, so I could be missing something.

Wintershade,

I had some troubles in the past when I started playing with HTML5 in that webkit would not register the plug-ins. Even if I deleted the .gstreamer* folder it never rebuilt correctly. I found a "solution" when installing rhythmbox which rebuilt the database correctly. I promptly removed it. It was an ugly hack but it worked for a long time. It's not necessary for me now.

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geekux · 2011-06-16 17:58:34

skottish wrote:

Even if I deleted the .gstreamer* folder it never rebuilt correctly.

I just deleted that folder, restarted Clementine and it's working now! Thanks for the hint.

oboedad55 · 2011-06-17 23:09:06

Wintershade, do you have the gstreamer ffmpeg plugin installed? I was messing around with my openSUSE install and went to play an MP4 and it complained, so I installed the ffmpeg plugin and all was well.

karol · 2011-06-19 22:36:09

Somebody else had a problem with aac files a month ago: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119474 It's still unresolved I think.

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