[gcompris-devel] gcompris+gstreamer = no audio

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le samedi 13 octobre 2007 à 17:53 +0200, Antoine Jacoutot a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> I'm the OpenBSD package maintainer for gcompris.
> Since the switch from sdl-mixer to gstreamer (gcompris-8.4) I don't seem 
> to be able to get sounds anymore :(
> It compiles, packages and runs withouth any issue besides the fact that 
> there's no audio. I don't know a lot about gstreamer although I have no 
> problem having sound using the different gst-* utilities directly, it 
> works fine.
> Also, the gstreamer-properties from gnome-media confirms that audio 
> works... I could really use some help as I've been stuggling with this 
> issue for some time now.
> 
> Let me know if you need anymore info, but as I don't get any error 
> output, it's hard...

You can try by hand if gstreamer can play an oggvorbis file by running
the following command (replace X.ogg by an ogg file location), all on
one line:
gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=X.ogg ! oggdemux ! vorbisdec !
audioconvert ! audioresample ! alsasink

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Bruno Coudoin
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