[gentoo-user] do we have gst-plugins-really-bad or equivalent?

[gentoo-user] do we have gst-plugins-really-bad or equivalent?

[Xi Shen]

hi,

i have some .m4a files. and i want to play them in rhythmbox. when i
import them into rhythmbox, it says it needs plugin to play mpeg-4 acc
file. i searched the network, and people from ubuntu says a
gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package would do. but i cannot find
this 'really bad' one on gentoo. i have already emerged
gst-plugins-bad, but i still cannot play these file.


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Re: [gentoo-user] do we have gst-plugins-really-bad or equivalent?

[John H. Moe]

On 26/03/10 01:49, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have some .m4a files. and i want to play them in rhythmbox. when i
> import them into rhythmbox, it says it needs plugin to play mpeg-4 acc
> file. i searched the network, and people from ubuntu says a
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package would do. but i cannot find
> this 'really bad' one on gentoo. i have already emerged
> gst-plugins-bad, but i still cannot play these file.
>
>
>   
I would have thought that gst-plugins-faac would do this for you; try
that and see if it helps.

Looking through the changelog for RhythymBox ebuild, and if I understand
it all correctly, it appears there used to be a "faad" use flag to
automatically pull it in back in 2003-2004, but then in 2007, there was
a bug report that caused them to remove it.  See
http://gentoo-portage.com/media-sound/rhythmbox/ChangeLog and 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/159538.

John Moe