Hello Tim, Thanks for the prompt reply. it worked without any problem. However, just out of curiosity, I wanted to know why osssink was not working. Regards. <div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2012 20:19, Tim-Philipp Müller <<a href="mailto:t.i.m@zen.co.uk">t.i.m@zen.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 19:39 +0530, Rajat Jain wrote: Hi, <div class="im"> > I am having running the most basic example in gstreamer. This example > is provided in the documentation provided by gstreamer. > command: $ gst-launch audiotestsrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! > osssink > </div><div class="im">> ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstOssSink:osssink0: Could > not open audio device for playback. > Additional debug info: > gstosssink.c(414): gst_oss_sink_open > (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstOssSink:osssink0: > system error: No such file or directory </div><div class="im">> All the commands before this example to test if the installation of > gstreamer and it's plug-ins ran perfectly. Only this command caused > problems. > > I am unable to understand what is wrong with the command, as I have > tried using the same command again and again, after browsing the web. > Please tell me what should I do. Any sort of help will be appreciated. </div>Try pulsesink or alsasink or autoaudiosink instead of osssink. Cheers -Tim _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div>