trying to compile songbird, but can't get mp3 support

speed145a · 2009-08-03 05:32:57

I'm trying to get songbird to compile, and once I do it won't play mp3's.

I was reading on the songbird wiki that ubuntu requires some gstreamer*dev packages... http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/ … bird#Linux

I am using the PKGBUILD from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7286

Any thoughts? Do I need extra libs or is it a config problem?

Allan · 2009-08-03 05:55:59

My guess is you need to install some of the optdepends (maybe gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins for mp3...).

speed145a · 2009-08-03 16:47:46

here are the packages I have installed already:

gstreamer0.10 0.10.23-1
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.12-1
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.12-1
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.23-1
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.23-2
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.7-1
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.15-1
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.15-2
gstreamer0.10-pulse 0.9.7-1
gstreamer0.10-python-songbird 0.10.14-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.11-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.11-2
kdemod-phonon-backend-gstreamer 4.3.1-3

for those who are wondering, yes, the songbird-bin works fine and plays mp3's. I still want to get this compile working :-)

speed145a · 2009-08-06 22:33:42

nobody has done this?

speed145a · 2009-09-01 22:50:41

bump

Rasi · 2009-09-02 06:03:57

Any chance you are using oss4? Songbird wont work with it and songbird devs get bitchy about it, when you do.

Quote from memory:

Use a proper audio framework like pulseaudio

speed145a · 2009-09-02 06:57:28

i kind of doubt it, but how can i tell?

Rasi · 2009-09-02 07:50:23

speed145a wrote:

i kind of doubt it, but how can i tell?

In that case the answer is no

speed145a · 2009-09-02 17:22:03

lol ok then :-) i was like "oss... thats for sound, right?"

ugkbunb · 2009-09-02 18:54:06

lol at pulseaudio being considered a proper audio framework... perhaps when they fix all their latency issues I will give it another shot.

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trying to compile songbird, but can't get mp3 support

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