GAIM 2.0.0b5: no sound: GStreamer-CRITICAL messages

[Michael Johnson]

On 11/27/06, Chris Shenton <chris at shenton.org> wrote:
> I had audio notifications working in GAIM-1.x and lost them when I
> upgraded to GAIM-2.0.0beta5.  My Tools->Preference->Sounds is set to
> Automatic, as before. When audio's enabled for GAIM my X11
> console reports:
>
> (gaim:95004): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_get_bus: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
>
> (gaim:95004): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bus_add_watch_full: assertion `GST_IS_BUS (bus)' failed
>
> (gaim:95004): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_set_state: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
>
>
> A message I found on a Linux list said that the GStreamer plugin
> was probably not installed in this situation but I don't see any GAIM
> plugin for GStreamer.  I have ports installed:
>
>     Information for gstreamer-0.10.10_1:
>     Comment:
>     Development framework for creating media applications
>
>     Information for gstreamer80-0.8.12_2:
>     Comment:
>     Development framework for creating media applications
>
> but don't know the difference or if I should remove one or the other.
>
> Any clues to get this working?


You need multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-good for oss output
or audio/gstreamer-plugins-esound for esound output

Michael

>
> Thanks.
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