[gst-devel] Can't make gestreamer work - please help.

[Johannes Graumann]

That's the conclusion I came to through aff-list communication as well.
I'm using debian and 0.6 is the newest version available as a binary
.deb - will live with the oss emulation for now.

Thanks to everybody for their hints!

Joh

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:01:00 +0100
Christophe Fergeau <teuf at gnome.org> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> As far as I know, alsasink didn't work properly with GStreamer 0.6,
> using osssink and alsa oss emulation would probably work far better.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Christophe
> 
> Le mar, 16/03/2004 à 15:58 -0800, Johannes Graumann a écrit :
> 
> > Second try - correct address of origin this time. My apologies.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a Debian testing Via based home server and have just set up
> > Alsa. Now I'm trying to use gstreamer to play music from command
> > line - xmms works, as does mpg123.
> > 
> > So I issue this command:
> > gst-launch filesrc location=file.mp3 ! mad ! alsasink
> > 
> > The result of this is:
> > INFO (11355: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.6.4 
> > INFO (11355: 0) CPU features: (00000673) MMX 3DNOW 
> > INFO (11355: 0) registry: loaded global_registry in 0.414845 seconds
> >           (/var/lib/gstreamer/0.6/registry.xml)
> > GStreamer-INFO: 0 live buffer(s)
> > GStreamer-INFO: 0 live bufferpool(s)
> > GStreamer-INFO: 0 live event(s)
> > RUNNING pipeline
> > Opening alsa device "default" for playback...
> > Preparing channel: (null) 44100Hz, 2 channels
> > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:370:(snd_pcm_hw_sw_params)
> > SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_SW_PARAMS failed: Invalid argument
> > 
> > ** (process:11355): WARNING **: could not set sw_params: Invalid
> > argument pipeline doesn't want to play
> > GStreamer-INFO: 1 live buffer(s)
> > GStreamer-INFO: 0 live bufferpool(s)
> > GStreamer-INFO: 0 live event(s)
> > 
> > Google didn't help. Can anybody point me at where to look to solve
> > this.
> > 
> > I'm an obvious newby and at the end of my capabilities ...
> > 
> > Joh
> > 
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