Thomas Jollans on 02/07/06 15:05, wrote:
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)
Sorry Thomas, meant to send that to the list.
I installed gstreamer but I don't have the command 'basicgthread' which it seems I need to run from the cmd line to test play my mp3s. I tried running rhythmbox under gnome and but that made no difference. So what is gstreamer or more to the point, how do I get rhythmbox to use it, if even that is what the MP3 problem is all about? The documentation is scant and google isn't turning up anything useful here except a whole ream of program and log files for gstreamer development. Adam