Getting rhythmbox-0.8.2 to play nicely with m4a
Peter
peter at gee.kz
Sat May 1 12:14:28 PDT 2004
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
[snip]
> > Compile and rhythmbox-0.8.2 with the xine backend, and make sure to edit the Makefile to include --enable-mp4 as a CONFIGURE_ARG.
>
> Why xine? What happens with gstreamer and MP4?
Based on this mail from Bastien Nocera:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2003-November/msg00202.html
But that's a good question. I just tested builds with gstreamer enabled, instead of xine, and with and without monkeymedia (just in case).
Playback fails with "There is no element present to handle the stream's mime type audio/x-m4a."
This is using:
gstreamer-0.8.1
gstreamer-plugins-0.8.1
nautilus-media-0.8.0_1
Perhaps it's a minor change to GStreamer, or a plugin needs to be written. I'm not sure. This thread seems to indicate that it's not a one line change:
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2004-March/msg00096.html
> > My install of gnome-2.6 does not seem to recognize audio/x-m4a as a MIMEtype, so I also had to edit /usr/local/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml and add the following to it:
>
> [patch elided]
>
> This is a good thing to submit to FreeDesktop. I checked their CVS
> repo, and they have not yet added the m4a MIME type. I'm sure they
> would appreciate this. Note: you will also need to provide a patch to
> the freedesktop.org.xml.in file (but that's the easy part). Use
> http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi to submit your patch.
done.
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=584
Best regards,
Peter
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