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tecta
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 Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: gnome media problems |
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Hi, for some reason when I start totem it says "Could not initialize supporting library."... also when i go to "Multimedia Selector" in Gnome, nothing says it's working. However my audio works, and so does my video (tested with webcam, and mplayer plays any movie I need...)
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papal_authority
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Totem uses gstreamer as a backend IIRC. Is that emerged? If it is, are you using ALSA or OSS? You can use gconf-editor to check this (system --> gstreamer --> [latest_version] --> default). I had nothing but problems with OSS which is what it defaulted to.
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tecta
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| it says it's using alsa... |
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jonnevers
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| tecta wrote: | | it says it's using alsa... |
I've had bad results using gstreamer as totem's backend, I prefer to use xine
| Code: | echo "media-libs/xine-lib mad" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "media-video/totem xine" >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -pv totem |
of course add your own requried USE flags. the reason for the "mad" USE flag for xine-lib is that I needed it enaled for totem to playback audio in mpeg format video files. |
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tecta
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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i switched to xine backend, and now when i start totem i get
No video output is available. Make sure that the program is correctly installed. |
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