GStreamer and Rhythmbox on Debian Sid

Mohammed Sameer msameer at foolab.org
Fri Mar 2 20:08:22 UTC 2018


On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 06:13:11PM +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> Most of my ripped music is in OGG Vorbis. Rhythmbox on Debian Sid is
> fine with this. Yesterday I tried playing something I have in MP3 and
> nothing. GStreamer didn't have the appropriate MP3 plugin. I have the
> Debian packages for base, good, bad, and ugly plugins, but none seem
> now to have an MP3 plugin. I have libmad0, libmpeg3-2, libmpeg2-4,
> ffmpeg, libmpg123-0 installed and I'm assuming at least one of those is
> up for the job.
> 
> In a moment of stress I installed the fluendo plugin package and it all
> worked, but I am fairly sure I shouldn't have had to do this.
> 
> Anyone any ideas what has changed recently that made this change?

I am not sure but I have gstreamer1.0-libav and mp3 files work fine.

Cheers,

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