Rhythmbox can't play [SOLVED]

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

Whenever I try to play music from rhythmbox, it displays a little red sign with a minus sign in it (before it was an exclamation mark). I think I got around this issue before by configuring esd to use ALSA output or something. This was done in Gnome from Desktop -> Preferences -> Configure Sound (Just a guess) which is not found on my new Gentoo install.

chrbecke · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject:

Run rhythmbox from a console with

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

I think this is relevant

chrbecke · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, looks like it.
Run

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

chrbecke · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

Which version of gnome are you running? I'm running 2.12.1, maybe the command was different in earlier versions...
gstreamer-protperties belongs to gnome-extra/gnome-media.

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

Thank you, gnome-media was what I needed.

I am running Gnome 2.12.2, but I only emerged gnome-light.

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

gstreamer-properties only lists Autodetect and Custom for the Output Sink.

chrbecke · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject:

Maybe you need to emerge media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa?

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

pacho2 · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject:

Try to install:
gst-plugins-alsa
gst-plugins-esd
gst-plugins-oss

Are you using stable or testing?

pacho2 · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

I install gst-plugin-oss and OSS works fine, but how would it if I did not compile OSS into my kernel?

Should I stil try esd?

pacho2 · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

Because alsa support an OSS emulation that works better than OSS

I am also using it because ALSA doesn´t works in gstreamer for me :cry:

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

How lame that the emulation works while the actual thing does not.

pacho2 · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject:

I can run lame without problems...

idtt2s · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 199

Maedhros · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

Moved from Multimedia to Duplicate Threads in favour of "No GConf default audio sink key and osssink doesn't work".
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