Bug#486231: [rhythmbox] missing elements "faac" and "lame"

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Fri Jun 20 22:59:14 UTC 2008


forwarded 486231 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520209
thanks

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 15:47 +0200, Matthias Krüger wrote:
> I launched "rhythmbox --gst-debug-level=2" and started the
> preference-window. (Edit -> Preferences)
> 
> The terminal said:
> "
> > 0:00:04.408654093  4788 0x6a6500 ERROR         GST_PIPELINE ./grammar.y:558:_gst_parse_yyparse: no element "faac"
> > 0:00:04.526474138  4788 0x6a6500 ERROR         GST_PIPELINE ./grammar.y:558:_gst_parse_yyparse: no element "lame"
> "
> 
> When was redoing this (Edit -> Preferences) with the same rhythmbox (I
> didn't launch a new one) no more output appeared.

Hi,

The easy codec installation should be used here (or at least an
informative error message should be shown) this is upstream bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520209


> I don't know whether this is important for this bug report but I have
> lame installed on my system:
> 
> lame				3.97-0.0
> libmp3lame0			3.96.99+3.97beta2+debian-1duo+etch1
> libmp3lame-dev			3.96.99+3.97beta2+debian-1duo+etch1

You need the GStreamer lame plugin, gstreamer0.10-lame, it's not in
debian for the same reasons lame isn't.

I think the reason faac isn't in debian is legal problems also.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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