On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 14:06 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 14:06:18 -0700 > From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Gstreamer-0.10 freezing under Gnome in etch, will not > play > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ey/N+yb7u/X9mFhi" > Content-disposition: inline > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > --ey/N+yb7u/X9mFhi > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 02:03:04PM -0400, Chris Mattern wrote: > > Hello: > >=20 > > Sorry, for the repost, but nobody at all responded the first > > time around, and I really could use any lead at all; I > > don't have too good a grasp on how Gnome configures things > > and good documentation on it seem very hard to find... > >=20 > > I've been going through a great deal of frustration becuase > > gstreamer-0.10 has started to refuse to play under gnome, > > a source of great frustration to me because it means that > > rhythmbox stopped working (I'd also like to get .m4a audio > > files working under gstreamer/rhythmbox, but that's a whole > > 'nother epic...). It used to work, but it broke after I > > brought in a .gconf/%gconf-tree.xml from another system > > because I wanted the gnome-terminal definitions in it. There > > weren't any definitions in the file other than gnome-terminal > > and this system didn't even have a %gconf-tree.xml until I > > brought it over... > >=20 > > So, gstreamer still works from a text console, but in a > > gnome-terminal I get this: > > so what is different from console to gnome? What processes are running > that we're before? kill them one by one and see if you can figure it > out. Might be some kind of esd thing. do you have the > gstreamer0.10-esd package? > > of course, you could also try going back to your previous > =2Egconf/... and then pick through your changes one by one til it > fails. Although you think you didn't change anything related to > gstreamer in it, you may inadvertently caused a problem. Maybe for > example, the presence of a gconf-tree.xml changes the behavior of > some program or service, changes the default settings perhaps.=20 >
Thanks, the esd package did it; I didn't realize that the esd coding was in a different package. Once I loaded the gstreamer 0.10 esd package, I had esdsink, and using gconftool-2 to set up 0.10 to use esdsink the same way that 0.8 did made everything work. Thanks again. Chris Mattern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
