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blabla

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Registered: 2004-06-22

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Rhythmbox - error when trying to play a file

Hi,

I installed rhythmbox lately, when i try to play a mp3 i get the following error:

Failed to create volume element; check your installation

I have installed alsa with wiki (works perfectly), including these lines in /etc/devfsd.conf:

REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.sound 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.sound 660

Yes, i did a search in the forum......
Saw that it is probably a gstreamer problem. Ran gstreamer-properties.
It says: defaultsink:
output: ESD Enlightenment Sound Daemon
pipeline: osssink

When i click on test it says:

Failed to construct test pipeline for 'ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture'

I do not have the complete gnome installed, i use XFCE

Anyone got any suggestions?

gr

sarah31

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Re: Rhythmbox - error when trying to play a file

do you have the snd-pcm-oss module loaded? have you unmuted your channels?

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blabla

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Registered: 2004-06-22

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Re: Rhythmbox - error when trying to play a file

These are the modules in rc.conf:

#
# Module to load at boot-up (in this order)
#   (prefix a module with a ! to disable it)
#
MODULES=(!usbserial !ide-scsi via-rhine snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 lp
parport_pc nvidia ohci-hcd quickcam raw1394

There's no problem when i play the mp3 with BMP. with the alsa-,esd- or oss-plugin.

gr

Brice

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Registered: 2003-12-10

Posts: 19

Re: Rhythmbox - error when trying to play a file

I also get this problem
Notice that I can't find gstreamer-properties.
Using xmms is fine, and this post in the rhythmbox-devel ML seems to confirm it is gstreamer related.

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Brice

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Registered: 2003-12-10

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Re: Rhythmbox - error when trying to play a file

Hum, I just pacman -S gstreamer (which was already up to date), and it seems like it fixed the problem.
Strange though, I expect it to come again soon.

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blabla

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Registered: 2004-06-22

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Re: Rhythmbox - error when trying to play a file

Brice,
thanks for the tip. Reinstalling worked for me too 

btw. gstreamer-properties is part of the gnome-desktop package

gr

Spirit7609

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2004-07-29

Posts: 7

Re: Rhythmbox - error when trying to play a file

DIdn't work for me, though.. :-(

I have the same problems. Playing through totem (through xine) works fine.
I use alsasink in gstreamer-properties and have snd-pcm-oss build into the kernel (no module).

I've followed the directions from the wiki but I use udev. But I've set permissions accordingly. Since xine can play audio, I guess for this part everything is okay.

I don't get it - this is not my first alsa installation. :-)

Just tried pacman -S gstreamer but no change..