Re: rhythmbox

[Thomas Jollans <tjollans@jollybox.de>]

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Adam Hardy wrote:
> Just did a general upgrade in etch and accepted all bugs and have
> problems now with rhythmbox, which won't play any MP3s now. it'll play
> OGG files, but not MP3s.
> Trying to fix it, I came across some directions for testing files with
> gstreamer, and I realise that rhythmbox considers itself a Gnome app,
> but I'm using KDE. I don't have gstreamer installer, it looks like a
> heavy-weight Gnome component, maybe even a daemon but I'm not sure.
> So to test, I should install gstreamer, but I'm not convinced I need
> gstreamer at all in KDE. But perhaps rhythmbox has changed now to work
> only under Gnome.
> 
> Anyone know what the situation is?
GStreamer is a library that is used heavily in Gnome, but does not use a
daemon by default. (unlike arts...) It does not hurt to install
gstreamer and gstreamer should not depend on anything rhythmbox didn't
depend on anyway... (like glib etc)

Thomas

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