Gstreamer problem

Asked by Emile Rusten

Hey!
I've got a sound issue I hope you guys could help me with. Basically the problem is with gstreamer and I can't hear any sound in some applications. Systeme sounds are ok (when I test it in the preferences menu) and applications like VLC works properly. Others though, doesn't work, probably because depending of Gstreamer.

I don't have sounds for Pidgin and when running through the terminal and trying to run the sound test in Tools>Preferences>Sound, i get following error message in the console:

"(pidgin:6470): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed

(pidgin:6470): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (dest)' failed

(pidgin:6470): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (src)' failed
"

Doing the same for rhytmbox i get:

"(rhythmbox:6740): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(rhythmbox:6740): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bin_add: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed

(rhythmbox:6740): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (dest)' failed

(rhythmbox:6740): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_link_pads: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (src)' failed

(rhythmbox:6740): RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_get_string: assertion `entry != NULL' failed
"

Now it seems that a lot of applications depends of gstreamer, like ubuntu-desktop, so I think its not a good idea to remove it directly but i'm not so experienced..
I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 btw.
That's it!

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Rui Araújo (rui-araujo) said :
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Have you remove the gstreamer package??

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Emile Rusten (emilerusten) said :
#2

Well i already tried, but because many applications like ubuntu-desktop depends of gstreamer, parts of the desktop envirnment was malfunctioning. It didn't help but creating problems..

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Rui Araújo (rui-araujo) said :
#3

The ubuntu-desktop package is a meta-package which is only useful to updates so don't worry too much when removing it.

I would suggest that you reinstall gstreamer as many applications do rely on it for sound and video.

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Emile Rusten (emilerusten) said :
#4

Ok, i've tried removing it with synaptics without success. Any other propositions?

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Rui Araújo (rui-araujo) said :
#5

But have you reinstalled it?

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Emile Rusten (emilerusten) said :
#6

Yes, i got some difficulties because it removed other applications like gnome terminal and other things. But I still got the problem.

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Rui Araújo (rui-araujo) said :
#7

if the reinstalling didn't work i have no others ideas besides reinstalling the system.

sorry......

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