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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">m fairly new to gstreamer, so if there is a better place to ask the question or some documentation that I should read please let me know and accept my apologies.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">m using the SuSe 9.3 distrubution (gstreamer-0.8.9-5 with 0.8.8-13 versions of plugins, p</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">lugins-extra, plugins-excess and plugins-default)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I run:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">% gst-launch videotestsrc ! xvimagesink</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A windows appears with colour bars and a changing snowstorm effect in the bottom right hand corner. I</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ve assumed this is the correct behaviour.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I r</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">un:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">% gst-launch sinesrc ! osssink</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I hear the expected tone.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I try to run an avi file I get:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">% gst-launch-ext-0.8 60sMpeg42.avi </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">No configuration file /home/phil/.gst found. You might want to create one.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is not an error, just a friendly remin</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">der... Check the man page.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Running command-line</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location="60sMpeg42.avi" ! decodebin name=d { d. ! queue ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink } { d. ! queue ! audioconvert ! audioscale ! osssink }</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RUNNING pipeline ...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">However, no window appears for the video output and there is no sound output.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As the filename suggests it has mpeg 4.2 data in an avi format.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I tried running the generated gst-launch command by hand setting a</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">–</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">gst-debug-level, but I didn</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">t see any obviou</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s problem.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">d be grateful for any suggestions for investigating this.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Phil</FONT></SPAN></P>
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