<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 03/25/2012 05:26 PM, Rajat Jain wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAOVGuG=Y_7vQVicGF=SbnpRgpEi-UQm9e9nz5tof3YxpMx2vXA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">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. </blockquote> oss is not widely in use anymore. If you want make a patch to the documentation and replace osssink with autoaudiosink. Submit the patch to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org">http://bugzilla.gnome.org</a> for product=gstreamer. Stefan <blockquote cite="mid:CAOVGuG=Y_7vQVicGF=SbnpRgpEi-UQm9e9nz5tof3YxpMx2vXA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Regards. <div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2012 20:19, Tim-Philipp Müller <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:t.i.m@zen.co.uk">t.i.m@zen.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote> </div> <pre wrap=""> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>