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Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 137

Rhythmbox not playing music despite gstreamer plugins being installed

launching rhythmbox from the command line and playing an mp3 gives the following output:

Rhythmbox-Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|rhythmbox|MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, layer=(int)3, parsed=(boolean)false
Rhythmbox-Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper script missing)

(rhythmbox:4631): Gtk-WARNING **: mnemonic "s" wasn't removed for widget (0x1eafaf0)
Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.%  

however I have every gst and gstreamer plugin imaginable:

pacman -Qqs gstreamer
clutter-gst
gnome-video-effects
gst-libav
gst-plugins-bad
gst-plugins-base
gst-plugins-base-libs
gst-plugins-good
gst-plugins-ugly
gstreamer
gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-bad
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
gstreamer0.10-base
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-good
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ugly
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
lib32-gstreamer0.10
lib32-gstreamer0.10-base
totem

This happened within the last week or so and I'm unsure what has caused it. mplayer and vlc play mp3s fine.

cacplate

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Registered: 2013-08-30

Posts: 14

Re: Rhythmbox not playing music despite gstreamer plugins being installed

Did you try with other filetypes? To know if its just mp3 or rhythmbox directly.

Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 137

Re: Rhythmbox not playing music despite gstreamer plugins being installed

i tried playing a .m4a file and it wen't fine, so it appears to be just mp3.

i have also installed the 'lame' package in pacman to no effect.

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2,006

Re: Rhythmbox not playing music despite gstreamer plugins being installed

MP3 support is in "ugly" so you should be able to play them with that installed.  Don't know why it isn't working just pointing that ugly is where MP3 is.

Edit: see here -> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/d … gins/html/

Last edited by headkase (2014-05-04 19:18:19)

Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 137

Re: Rhythmbox not playing music despite gstreamer plugins being installed

yeah i have gst-plugins-ugly installed

the most recent version "Packages (1): gst-plugins-ugly-1.2.4-1"

Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 137

Re: Rhythmbox not playing music despite gstreamer plugins being installed

any ideas? i also get the error during import. rhythmbox says it needs a codec to import the mp3 and to 'click to install additional software'

however when i click that i get the message

Rhythmbox-Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|rhythmbox-metadata|MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, layer=(int)3, parsed=(boolean)false

Rhythmbox-Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper script missing)

Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 137

Re: Rhythmbox not playing music despite gstreamer plugins being installed

I installed clementine, it plays mp3's just fine, however banshee doesn't.

perhaps there's an issue with my gtk apps not locating gst?