Clementine:Error!! "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."

StrawHat004 · 2016-10-03 04:41:27

Hello, I am new to archlinux, so i was trying to play some music. So i installed Gstreamer(current version) with all plugins included(gst-libav gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly) and installed Clementine. But when i tried to play a song via adding folder and stuff i m getting the error in a pop-up window "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."

So i tried searching google and looked into some previous post in arch forums and installed gstreamer0.10(legacy version) with all plugin included(gstreamer0.10-plugins)
But still getting the same problem...

Any one can help me with this problem that would be awesome...:(

smirky · 2016-10-03 06:00:11

I'm not sure if Clementine throws any stdout/stderr, but I suppose it's worth the shot trying to open it via a terminal emulator and watching what it tells you in there.
If by any chance you see something obvious, like a missing .so file, then you may have just found what you're looking for.
If you're still lost, paste the output here.

EDIT: The best way is to strace stuff like that, but that is my desperate move in case I'm lost

Last edited by smirky (2016-10-03 06:01:04)

seth · 2016-10-03 06:18:35

The error message isn't particuarily helpful ;-)

1. What kind of file is that? Is it available for download (and inspection)
2. What happens on "gst-play-1.0 obscure_file.sfx"

You should not require gst 0.1 for clementine.

StrawHat004 · 2016-10-04 06:28:46

smirky wrote:

I'm not sure if Clementine throws any stdout/stderr, but I suppose it's worth the shot trying to open it via a terminal emulator and watching what it tells you in there.
If by any chance you see something obvious, like a missing .so file, then you may have just found what you're looking for.
If you're still lost, paste the output here.
EDIT: The best way is to strace stuff like that, but that is my desperate move in case I'm lost

11:51:05.606 WARN  unknown                          libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile 
11:51:06.101 WARN  unknown                          QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2 
11:53:40.163 WARN  unknown                          QTimeLine::start: already running 
11:54:08.225 WARN  unknown                          QTimeLine::start: already running

This is what is showing in my terminal....Dont know much about 'QTimeLine'...

seth wrote:

The error message isn't particuarily helpful ;-)
1. What kind of file is that? Is it available for download (and inspection)
2. What happens on "gst-play-1.0 obscure_file.sfx"
You should not require gst 0.1 for clementine.

Its an mp3 file and downloaded it via torrent......
for the second part dont know what u mean...i m sorry..:(

seth · 2016-10-04 07:31:35

gst-play-1.0 is a CLI tool, it plays media files and is maybe a bit more informative.

seth · 2016-10-04 12:04:36

PS, also check "file obscure_file.mp3" and whether you can play other mp3 files with clementine. Stuff that comes via torrent can just as much be a windows virus ;-)

StrawHat004 · 2016-10-05 02:46:52

Will try it out....but i installed VLC and everything is working fine....even mp3 is working properly

Ramos · 2017-09-27 11:42:26

I got the error Gstreamer missing a plugin when try to run Clementine.
(I just installed Arch Linux with Gnome 3.24.2, gstreamer, codecs, Clementine,etc.)
I am new in Arch after a tour in Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, etc. Still learning linux.
The above suggestions did not work for me, (I could use VLC but not Clementine) so I did:

Run 2 terminal windows side by side.
On the left I entered: sudo pacman -Ss gstreamer*
And on the right one I installed everything that looked a plugin and appeared not installed (except odvious apps like parole or pitivi).
Reboot, it solved the problem.

This is my first post in this forum. Please, let me know if it work for you so I can edit and add SOLVED.
I love Arch!!!

Slithery · 2017-09-27 11:52:20

Welcome to the forums Ramos

Ramos wrote:

On the left I entered: sudo pacman -Ss gstreamer*

You don't need to run pacman as root if you're only searching for packages (the * is also not needed).

This isn't an issue that needs input from the forums. When you installed clementine then pacman would have listed the optional dependencies needed for certain tasks. Not reading pacman's output is your problem here, not missing dependencies.

This is my first post in this forum. Please, let me know if it work for you so I can edit and add SOLVED.

Only the OP can mark a thread as [SOLVED].

Last edited by Slithery (2017-09-27 11:54:12)

V1del · 2017-09-27 11:57:17

Nice to hear you manage to fix this, however the OP hasn't been here for a year, as such I'm going to close this, please don't necrobump in the future:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

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