Re: Rhythmbox plugins

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Author: ted@gould.cx
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To: vaughn
CC: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Rhythmbox plugins
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:11, wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>>> source and not an RPM. How do I install these manually-compiled
>>> plugins? On a wild guess I tried copying the lib* files from
>>> /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.8 into /usr/share/rhythmbox, but that didn't
>>> help. There must be a simpler solution. Has anyone done this before?
>>
>> I don't have a Linux box right here to check the name of the command, but
>> there is a utility to register GStreamer plugins that comes with
>> GStreamer. I want to say it is gst-register. I should look through the
>> directory and register all of them to an XML file in /etc
>
> You are correct, and I ran that command, and it SAID it registered a
> whole bunch of plugins, but for some reason rhythmbox can't see them.
> :-( Perhaps I need a different player application.


Hmm, the other thing I would check is which version of GStreamer your
Rhythmbox is using. I know the version I'm using is 0.10, if you have a
newer version you might be in the same boat.

You can always tests GStreamer plugins on the command line using
"gst-launch".

         --Ted


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