Bug#257394: rhythmbox: Cannot play -> Output message is "Could not create audio output element; check your settings"

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le sam, 03/07/2004 =E0 10:57 +0200, Dimitri Chausson a =E9crit :

> May need another package to work ?

Which audiosink are you using ? You can use gstreamer-properties or the
gconf key (/system/gstreamer/default/audiosink) to see that.

The main choices are: alsasink, osssink, esdsink.

alsasink needs gstreamer-alsa
osssink needs gstreamer-oss
esdsink needs gstreamer-esd and to run esd

Could you test with the several sink to see the result ? Which soundcard
are you using ?
To see if it's a gstreamer problem or an rhythmbox one you should run:

$ gst-launch gnomevfssrc location=3D/path/to/my/musicfile.ogg ! spider !
volume ! audioscale ! audioconvert ! $(gconftool-2 -g /system/
gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink)

you can replace $(gconftool-2 -g /system/gstreamer/0.8/default/
audiosink) by alsasink/esdsink/osssink.

BTW the unstable version of rhythmbox using gstreamer0.8 should solve a
lot of issue. And since it works for most of people I'm changing the
severity to important.


Thanks,

Sebastien Bacher