gstreamer v0.8 plugins in Gentoo ?

[gregy_]

Hi,
I've been having problems playing movies with gstreamer since moving to Gnome2.6.
It turned out that the reason was missing a52dec gstreamer plugin. My solution was to modify gst-plugins ebuild to build this plugin by default, but it seems that this fix is somewhat not according to the Gentoo's behavior regarding gstreamer plugins: the message says that Gentoo packages each plugin as a separate ebuild...
But it seems to me that it is simply too effort-consuming to keep a separate ebuild for each plugin... For example now there is only a couple of plugins there for version 0.8... Not even enough to play a movie / DVD...

Why not make the list of plugins a variable, same way as USE variable used at least for those flags where corresponding USE flag doesn't exist... (ogg/vorbis, xv, ffmpeg, mad seem to be covered by global USE flags, but never the less only oss/alsa/esd flags are actually used during configuration).

So that one could emerge gst-plugins with smth like:
GST_PLUGINS="ogg vorbis mad a52dec ffmpeg whateveriwant" emerge gst-plugins
or
USE="ogg vorbis mad a52dec ffmpeg whateveriwant" emerge gst-plugins

and get all the requested plugins.

Any comments / suggestions ?


Thanks,
Greg.

[Al'Capone]

I had the same problem when upgraded from gnome2.4 to 2.6 (gstreamer-0.6 was loaded with all the plugins) i started having problems playing mp3 files while cd playback and xine was fine. my fix was to remove gstreamer and gst-plugins all together, and then re-emerge gstreamer and gst-plugins all over again.

But now i have another problem rhythmbox dont work anymore it seems to be depended on gstreamer 0.6 well got rid off that and now looking for an alternative since i like to listen to internet radio while working.

Your movie issue is easy to fix it seems that gstreamer fails to build Xv video sinks i sort of had the same problem i think i emerged gst-plugins xvideo, and that fixed my problem. ( i use xine instead of mplayer) go to gstreamer-properties and select xvideo instead of whatever is there.

cheers

Al
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[darksaidin]

[gregy_]

You are right... I've posted it at the bugzilla (ticket #47367).