Hi Felipe, It didn't help. No extra debug information came out It displays and goes into infinite loop "Setting pipeline to Paused..." Regards vinod <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Felipe Contreras <<a href="mailto:felipe.contreras@gmail.com">felipe.contreras@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:30 AM, vinod james <<a href="mailto:vinod.james@gmail.com">vinod.james@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Hi, > I have done a source installation of gstreamer and gstreamer-base plugins > version 0.10.21 > I am trying few things mentioned in the faq document > If I say > $aplay -v test.wav, > I am able to play the wav file through alsaplay, which shows that alsa > driver is installed in my PC > > If I do > $gst-inspect alsasink > shows that alsasink is installed. > > And when i do > $gst-launch filesrc location=test.ogg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! > audioresample ! filesink location=test.raw > it writes the decoded raw samples into the file and I am  able to play > test.raw in application like cooledit > > But if I do > $gst-launch filesrc location=test.ogg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! > audioresample ! alsasink > it goes into infinite loop. > The alsasink plugin is not able to detect the alsadriver I guess. > How do I debug this problem? > Pls help me </div></div>Try with: gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink And for debugging: export GST_DEBUG=alsa:5 -- Felipe Contreras ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you.  Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/" target="_blank">http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/</a> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- Vinod James