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kinoe

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Registered: 2016-09-27

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] No preview of audio files in CAJA and THUNAR-extended

Hello all,

i'm running MATE with caja-gtk3. Had audio-preview only for ogg and wav but not for mp3.

Codecs are installed: all audios are executable in players.

So i installed totem, but during that installation the system froze and i finally exited it with REISUB. After that i tried to remove or install totem & totem-plparser but i got:

/usr/lib/"various .so-files" is empty; no check.

So i had a little work to manually delete those empty libs till it does not show the error anymore.
The same with:

lua52 (5.2.4-2)
lua52-socket (20160311-1)
lua52-bitop (1.0.2-7)
lua52-expat (1.3.0-3)
lua52-lpeg (1.0.0-1)
lua52-luajson (1.3.3-2)
libquvi-scripts (0.9.20131130-3)
libquvi (0.9.4-4)
totem-plparser (3.10.7+1+gb25e497-1)
libpeas (1.20.0-1)
cogl (1.22.2-1)
clutter (1.26.0+24+g79da526-1)
clutter-gtk (1.8.2-1)
clutter-gst (3.0.22-1)
liboauth (1.0.3+9+g11e9461-1)
grilo (0.3.2+8+g6ffe445-1)
cdparanoia (10.2-5)
libvisual (0.4.0-6)

Then i installed gstreamer0.10-plugins: -base, -good, -good-plugins, -ugly, -ugly-plugins.

BUT NO SUCCESS! Contrary, after all NO audio-preview at all! Even in Thunar-extended which i installed to test this.
In caja and thunar the little symbol of previewing is showing up when hovering over the ogg./mp3. or wav. file but no sound.

Any ideas? I'm stuck and drained....

Last edited by kinoe (2016-12-13 07:25:28)

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kinoe

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Registered: 2016-09-27

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] No preview of audio files in CAJA and THUNAR-extended

Hey c'mon folks

no one got this? no clue?

Last edited by kinoe (2016-12-12 20:41:22)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] No preview of audio files in CAJA and THUNAR-extended

You want the gstreamer 1.0 codecs gst-plugins-(base,good,bad,ugly) and not the gstreamer0.10 ones

kinoe

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Registered: 2016-09-27

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] No preview of audio files in CAJA and THUNAR-extended

@ V1del

thanks a bundle!
that was the missing link and by the way i discovered that those gstreamer-plugins/codecs, although they had been installed, they also were corrupted and therefore not functioning, so a:

$ pacman -S --force gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-base-libs gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly

fixed it and mp3-preview too! yeah!
I find this feature (audio-preview) quite helpful when its getting to quickly find some certain sounds or musics

Last edited by kinoe (2016-12-13 07:26:46)

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