GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 524227
FAQ Documentation vs Downloads
Last modified: 2008-10-06 09:15:40 UTC
I have been very frustrated in trying to use the GStreamer tool because the documentation does not mirror the posted downloads. Look at these two pages: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-using.html http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/ I have downloaded and built EVERY module on the second page, then tried to proceed through the "Using GStreamer" (first page) and am halted on this step... "Can my system play sound through GStreamer?" The problem is that EVERY single one of the "output plugins" is missing! Where do we get these plugins? How do I proceed beyond this seemingly simple step with no documented place to find the plugins that I can use?
Why aren't you using GStreamer packages from your distribution?
(In reply to comment #1) > Why aren't you using GStreamer packages from your distribution? Hi David! (Thanks for the reply.) Because the "Using Gstreamer" page says to enter a series of commands such as, "gst-inspect osssink", replacing the "osssink" with: esdsink for ESound output artsdsink for aRTs output (not ported to 0.10 yet) alsasink for ALSA output alsaspdifsink for ALSA S/PDIF output ...and in every case, the result was: No such element or plugin '<plugin name>' ...so where do I go when none of the documented alternatives work? I would like to begin with a simple sine wave sound, but the "Using Gstreamer" provides no direction when reachig a dead end like this. Do you know of a command that will tell me what "????sink" output plugins are currently available in an installation? I entered the "gst-inspect" command by itself and it provided a lot of interesting information, but listed no "output plugins" for me to choose from. - Bill
You didn't answer my question: Why did you compile from source instead of using distribution packages? If you had used distribution packages, you probably wouldn't be having these problems.
Bill, please try the following: * install the packages from your distribution * you probably did not specify any --prefix when configuring and building the gstreamer packages, so I supsect everything went to /usr/local and you would need to export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.10 in that case * if you want to develop something, also install -dev and -doc packages. If all that does not help, please reopen this report.