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bored2k

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Registered: 2006-01-14

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Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

I've search through the forums and installed virtually every single package that's been referred to fix this playback issue to no avail. Anything special I need to know/do/install?

picpak

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Registered: 2006-12-02

Posts: 89

Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

bored2k, I didn't know you use Arch

Apparently the program you want is gstreamer-quicktime, has anyone made a PKGBUILD for it?

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Picpak

skottish

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Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

gstreamer0.10-faad (hopefully) will work.

bored2k

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Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

gstreamer0.10-faad (hopefully) will work.

# pacman -S gstreamer0.10-faad
:: gstreamer0.10-faad-0.10.4-1: is up to date.  Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] n

:-/

skottish

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Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

Try installing the 'codecs' package if you haven't already.

bored2k

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Registered: 2006-01-14

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Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

Try installing the 'codecs' package if you haven't already.

Already installed. =/

/me smells a Windows boot + M4A Conversion...

skottish

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Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

You need to install openquicktime, then rebuild gst-plugins with the --enable-quicktime flag.

http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/lunar … 37853.html

bored2k

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Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

You need to install openquicktime, then rebuild gst-plugins with the --enable-quicktime flag.

http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/lunar … 37853.html

Eeck, sloppy fix :-s. Is there a particular reason why there's not even a package for openquicktime, nor a correct m4a-enabled builds? I find it hard to believe that everyone wanting m4a playback has to do this...

bored2k

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Registered: 2006-01-14

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Re: Playback: MP4/M4A files in Gstreamer **Solved**

The latest gstreamer0.10-faad updated solved it ! :-D