From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSouK-0006X1-LX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:43:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56BFCE0888; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444DAE0888 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KVV004EWF025BD0@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:43:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:43:14 -0500 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins In-reply-to: <201001070943.28537.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4B45ACB2.8000405@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 References: <4B452BCA.7040106@optonline.net> <201001070943.28537.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091004) X-Archives-Salt: a2bd5a31-ffd2-4f8b-851e-1728b4f9bb09 X-Archives-Hash: 5feb90b65e2f8c41704cb26278292425 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 07 January 2010 02:33:14 dhk wrote: >> When do I need gstreamer? When I run the "emerge --search >> @media-plugins/gst-plugins" command I get a lot of results and I have no >> idea what I need to install for what I want to do. >> >> Right now I want to listen to a radio show at >> http://www.legendsradio.net/ and it says I need a plugin. Anyone know >> how I find out which one I need? I pretty sure I need a gst-plugin, but >> not sure. > > It's better to say what error you get rather than ask how you fix the problem > you assume you might be having. You need gstreamer and it's plugins when you > use an app that uses gstreamer to play media. The thing you use might not use > gstreamer. > > Having said that, the site you mention does not appear to work. I get "server > down" errors on just about every play link. Maybe the station is barfed? > Thanks