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Bug 467729 - Doesn't work at all
Doesn't work at all
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: documentation
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: NONE
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-17 17:21 UTC by Very Angry
Modified: 2007-08-17 17:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Very Angry 2007-08-17 17:21:22 UTC 
Wouldn't play mp3 or realaudio.
It wouldn't report what plugin is missing, one is left to guess, tring to find out what the radio station may use ... it's awful.

I tried to find the plugins but the webpage is the most disorganised I have ever seen. Nothing but techno garble.

Now i have seen the most frequently reported bugs. The first 100 is about this software crashing. 

All in all, this is a hopeless software. How did it make into the Centos distro ... may I suggest to look at WINDOWS!!! That is the standard expected.
Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2007-08-17 17:32:59 UTC 
The website is aimed at developers, not users.  Users use applications after all, not libraries.  Your distro should have this kind of documentation, it varies from distro to distro after all.

Things you probably need to install: gstreamer-plugins-ugly, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-ffmpeg.

Please ask in your distro's support forums for further details about where to find these etc.

On a sidenote: GStreamer provides mechanisms to have missing codecs installed automatically.  It is up to applications and distributions to add the necessary hooks to make this work.