Guayadeque doesn't play wma files

mint

I installed 'peppermint two' on an acer travelmate and along with it came Guayadeque. I like the player very much, but had to discover that it will not play wma files.
It gives me this notice: 'Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in'.

My questions:
How can I see which plug-ins are installed to the player?
How can I find out which plug-in is missing?
And if the installations are not done through the package manager, how to install it?

Martin

anonbeat

See this please http://guayadeque.org/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/446/play-command-removes-songs#Item_5

Our documentation explains how to install guayadeque from source code, from ppa and from package manager. Please check it out.

Thanks for your help

mint

Thanks for the reply.

I made sure that the following plugins are installed:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

The first three were installed, the ugly-multiverse was not, but is now.
WMA files still do not play.

I still do not know, which plugin is missing and am happy to post the console output, but do not know the command lines for that.
I attached two screenshots of the gstreamer0.10-plugins and guayadeque version mentioned in the package manager.

M.

mint

The attachments did not get attached; a second try took too much time to upload; I will try again, if it is of help.

Here the list of the installed:
guayadeque 0.3.1-natty-2
gstreamer0.10-alsa
gstreamer0.10-nice
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
libgstreamer0.10-0

M.

anonbeat

For wma you need gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Thanks for your help

mint

Thanks, the question is answered, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg installed, wma playing and the problem solved.

M.

l300lvl

I've had this problem before and I'm wondering if anyone here might know why all of the sudden I cant play wmas on SUSE 12.1, Gnome 3. I checked the normal gstreamer ffmpeg and ugly and they seem to be installed correctly. I don't seem to be able to get wmas to play anywhere else either but I haven't tested very many apps yet.

Impysh

Sorry to bring this one up again, but Guayadeque won't play my wma files, either.

I have tried installing the plugins, but ugly-multiverse does not seem to be available - the software centre couldn't find it, and when I tried using the terminal it said that it was missing, obsoleted or only available from another source. It also said that the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly had replaced it.

I have installed all the other plugins mentioned, including gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, but am still getting the message that a plugin is missing.

Do you know how I can get the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse plugin, or another that will work?

Cheers,
Imp (Ubuntu beginner)

camaron

I think if you install Ubuntu Restricted Extras everything you need for these files will get installed too. I'm not entirely sure though as I don't have wma music.

l300lvl

camaron: would you happen to know of any suggestions as to how to quickly convert all wmas to mp3s, perhaps something that has its own wma libs included so it doesnt look for the system libs?

camaron

l300lvl said:
camaron: would you happen to know of any suggestions as to how to quickly convert all wmas to mp3s, perhaps something that has its own wma libs included so it doesnt look for the system libs?

I've always used Soundconverter for this kind of job. Again, installing it should bring all necessary libraries for the job. Obviously this will be as quick or slow as the number of files you have to convert. The job will be further slowed down as you will want to check bitrates of individual folders/albums in order not to upsample the files.

I think you probably know that apps in Linux use system libraries so don't know how to bypass this.

On a side note I did find a single wma file that plays fine (but got rid of it now...). I'm on gnome 3 under ubuntu unity.

For years now I've never really installed gstreamer libraries individually. As I say, packages like ubuntu-restricted-extras (no help to you), file converters (soundconverter) or even rippers (asunder) will drag all needed stuff to deal with proprietary formats.

l300lvl

I will try that out. As it was before, wmas were working fine, but then an update in gstreamer removed something about 2 weeks ago, as all wma functionality in only certain programs went away. If I can pinpoint a bug perhaps that will help and maybe it will get fixed sooner. At any rate, thanks, for now I will keep looking and just convert everything.

l300lvl

This was again fixed and besides converting them I can once again play wmas. In openSUSE 12.1 there was an update which removed a gstreamer packagae I believe, I think the package is: gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-orig-addon which was updated a couple days ago, but gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly was also updated so it could be that.

Now I will watch my updates more closely and make sure to convert all my wmas while they work so thanks for the suggestion about Soundconverter camaron

One nice thing is wmas now play very smooth for me where they used to skip a bit =\

anonbeat

I recomend you that now that wmas plays fine with guayadeque you use the transcode feature of guayadeque and convert them all to mp3 or ogg.
I prefer mp3 because it is more accepted by portable players.

ooohooohoooh

Hi, same problem here:
"your gstreamer installation is missing a plug-in"
In my case, converting to MP3 would not work as I want to play some wm radio streams
Installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg was the answer
Thanks all !

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