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KyleEdwards

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 7

Can't play audio files

Hello,

After a system upgrade a while back, I've found myself unable to play MP3 and M4A files using VLC, Banshee, and Rhythmbox. I can still play them with mplayer or the following command:

$ gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=something.mp3 ! mad ! alsasink

I've tried removing ~/.gstreamer-0.10, to no avail. Any ideas?

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,429

Re: Can't play audio files

No idea yet unfortunately, but I have just encountered the same problem. Happened in this week, when there was an update to gstreamer itself. It looks like the .mp3 extension is not registered anymore.

[EDIT] 
Thanks to another post on this great forum (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52879), I think I managed to solve it by installing the ugly plugins:

 pacman -S gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins

Mp3's now play again in Nautilus preview and movie player (dont have a music player installed yet).
Maybe you want to check that you have those installed.

Last edited by Strike0 (2011-09-25 10:12:04)

Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: Can't play audio files

No idea yet unfortunately, but I have just encountered the same problem. Happened in this week, when there was an update to gstreamer itself. It looks like the .mp3 extension is not registered anymore.

[EDIT] 
Thanks to another post on this great forum (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52879), I think I managed to solve it by installing the ugly plugins:

 pacman -S gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins

Mp3's now play again in Nautilus preview and movie player (dont have a music player installed yet).
Maybe you want to check that you have those installed.

That totally fixed my problem. Thank you.

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