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Ski

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Registered: 2015-07-22

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[SOLVED]Clementine error -- no playback despite installed plugins

Installed clementine, gstreamer, and gstreamer plugins (gst-libav, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good) via pacman and restarted my computer running KDE plasma.  When attempting to play music I receive the following error message:

GStreamer could not create the element: autoaudiosink. Please make sure that you have installed all necessary GStreamer plugins (e.g. OGG and MP3)

I'm unsure if there is some confliction going on as I've also installed phonon-qt5-gstreamer earlier as well as phonon-qt6-vlc.

I need some guidance in troubleshooting.  Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by Ski (2015-07-28 16:44:03)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED]Clementine error -- no playback despite installed plugins

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169463 ?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,146

Re: [SOLVED]Clementine error -- no playback despite installed plugins

the gst-libav, gst-plugins-base, and gst-plugins-good packages have nothing to do with clementine. Check pacman -Qi clementine.

Ski

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Registered: 2015-07-22

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED]Clementine error -- no playback despite installed plugins

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169463 ?

I had read that thread before posting.  Unlike that thread's author, I have completely exited clementine.  I even completely restarted the system -- as mentioned.  The issue persists.

the gst-libav, gst-plugins-base, and gst-plugins-good packages have nothing to do with clementine. Check pacman -Qi clementine.

This is what it returned:

$ pacman -Qi clementine
Name           : clementine
Version        : 1.2.3-6
Description    : A modern music player and library organizer
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : [url]http://www.clementine-player.org/[/url]
Licenses       : GPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : chromaprint  glew  gstreamer0.10-base  libcdio  libgpod
                 liblastfm  libmtp  libmygpo-qt  protobuf  qca-ossl  taglib
Optional Deps  : gstreamer0.10-base-plugins: "Base" plugin libraries [installed]
                 gstreamer0.10-good-plugins: "Good" plugin libraries [installed]
                 gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins: "Bad" plugin libraries [installed]
                 gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins: "Ugly" plugin libraries [installed]
                 gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: FFmpeg plugin [installed]
                 gvfs: Various devices support [installed]
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size :  19.19 MiB
Packager       : Maxime Gauduin <alucryd@gmail.com>
Build Date     : Sat 30 May 2015 02:32:46 AM PDT
Install Date   : Tue 28 Jul 2015 06:46:12 AM PDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,146

Re: [SOLVED]Clementine error -- no playback despite installed plugins

the gst-libav, gst-plugins-base, and gst-plugins-good packages have nothing to do with clementine. Check pacman -Qi clementine.

This is what it returned:
...

Right. Did you read it?

It appears you have the plugins installed, anyway.

Last edited by Scimmia (2015-07-28 16:39:44)

Ski

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Registered: 2015-07-22

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED]Clementine error -- no playback despite installed plugins

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169463 ?

Now I see what you mean karol.  The thread linked an even older thread where the poster had to rebuild the gstreamer registry using the following:

rm -f ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.bin

It now works.  Thank you all for your help!

Updating thread to solved.