[gst-devel] no elements or plugins work

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 03:52, John Russell wrote:
> I was playing with some of the cvs versions of gstreamer with rhythmbox 
> and seem to have screwed something up royally.  I have removed anything 
> I could find of the old cvs version and used the gentoo ebuild (which 
> always worked before) to reinstall the standard  version (0.8.1) Still, 
> no gstreamer application works.  trying gst-launch gets things like this.
> 
> gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location="Anton Bruckner - 01 Maestoso.mp3" ! mad 
> ! alsasink
> 
> ** (process:8117): WARNING **: no element "alsasink"
> WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "mad"
>          Trying to run anyway.
> RUNNING pipeline ...
> ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to play.
> 
> gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location="Anton Bruckner - 01 Maestoso.mp3" ! mad 
> ! osssink
> 
> ** (process:8125): WARNING **: no element "osssink"
> WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "mad"
>          Trying to run anyway.
> RUNNING pipeline ...
> ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to play.
> 
> When I run gst-register-0.8, all the regular plugins fly by followed by
> 
> rebuilding user_registry (/home/jorussel/.gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml)
> loaded 90 plugins with 165 features
> 
> but the only thing in ~/.gstreamer-0.8/registery.xml is this
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <GST-PluginRegistry>
> <gst-plugin-paths>
> </gst-plugin-paths>
> </GST-PluginRegistry>

Hi,

I'd like to know exactly what goes wrong there, but if you want a quick
fix, the best is probably to remove your user registry, your system
registry (probably in /var/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml) and run
gst-register *only as root*.

> 
> Has anyone seen this before and/or know what is going on?  Thanks for 
> the help.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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