Rhythmbox: Could not create audio output element

cult hero

I just installed Gnome 2.6 last night and wanted to give rhythmbox a try. Overall I've liked Gnome but getting my sound to work seems to be an impossibility.

I can play oggs just fine with ogg123 and GAIM plays its event sounds as expected. However, every time I go to play an mp3 or ogg in rhythmbox I get the following error:

"Could not create audio output element; check your settings"

The really annoying thing is that rhythmbox does not exactly have a whole lot going for it in the preferences section. What do I have to change? I read some other threads and it seems that all of the necessary plugins are installed. Any idea what gives?

And, do I have to start up eSound or can Gnome function without it?
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cult hero · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:34 am Post subject:

TheOtherShoe · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 47 Location: Portland, OR

A lot of applications still need gstreamer 0.6, but it is slotted so you can have 0.6 and 0.8 installed at the same time. So installing 0.6 might help if you don't have it.

Kabuto · l33t Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 701

emerge gst-plugins-oss.

Mongrol · Guru Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 376

I exactly the same issue. What I done was this;

Rip out rhythmbox and all gstreamer ebuilds. (0.6 and 0.8 and all plugins)

emerge rhythmbox 0.6.1 and let it pull in gstreamer 0.6.4

emerge rhythmbox 0.6.8 leaving gstreamer at 0.6.4.

It now works.

cult hero · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject:

Mongrol: More or less, that's what I ended up doing last night and that did the trick. I used rhythmbox 0.6.8 because rhythmbox 0.6.1 kept crashing. But everything worked and I'm very, very pleased.
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grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

so, is there a way to get rhythmbox working with gstreamer 0.8 ?
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sgaap · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject:

I have build gstreamer 0.8 (with alsa and oss plugin) and use the rhythmbox 0.7.1 from breakmygentoo, this seems to work (had some problems with conflicting eclasses though)
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Visceral · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

OK, i'll bite. I'm having the same problem here. How do I go about emerging an older version of gstreamer? I have 8.0 installed but apparently I also need 6.0 according to some of the above posts. When I do a

TheOtherShoe · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 47 Location: Portland, OR

Do just what it tells you:

Visceral · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:31 am Post subject:

Done , but the same problem still persists. I ended up installing it using Xine instead. This works for a few times and then it just freezes up. I'm using stable flags, but I've never been able to get Rhythmbox to work on a consistent basis for me. I'm starting to wonder if its not my onboard nvidia sound. That would be odd though, because it works for everything else.
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