Re: Rhythmbox won't play

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 06:43, Stefan Rotsch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> maybe someone could give me a hint how to get rhythmbox playing:
> 
> I am running esd, so with osssink as audiosink, I get
>    
>     ** (rhythmbox:18200): WARNING **: osscommon: unable to open the
>     sound device (in use ?)
> 
> and nothing happens (but thats ok in my eyes). After killing esd and
> restarting rhythmbox, the above warning doesn't show up, but rhythmbox
> still gives no sound (the time display stays at 0:00).

Ok, that's kind of a drastic solution, you probably could have changed
the default output sink in /system/gstreamer/default/audiosink :)

> I also tried esdsink, with the same result: the time display shows 0:00
> and nothing happens.

Are you by any chance using powerpc?  If so, you're likely running into
the gstreamer-0.5.0-on-powerpc bug.  As a workaround, you can use the
gstreamer .debs from my "local" repository:

        deb http://verbum.org/~walters/debian/ local/$(ARCH)/
        deb http://verbum.org/~walters/debian/ local/all/
        deb-src http://verbum.org/~walters/debian/ local/source/ 
        
If you're not using powerpc, then could you try starting rhythmbox on a
terminal, and tell me if there is any output there?