Closed castilma closed 3 years ago
I've just run into the issue (on NixOS 18.03) where Rhythmbox couldn't import a bunch of files due to missing codecs and installing additional GStreamer plugins didn't seem to help.
Adding the following to ~/.xprofile
and restarting the X11 session seems to be a workaround until this is properly fixed:
export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/nix/var/nix/profiles/system/sw/lib/gstreamer-1.0
This assumes required GStreamer plugins are installed.
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Still an issue.
To play WMA files in Rhythmbox I had to install gst_all_1.gst-libav
, and set GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/nix/var/nix/profiles/system/sw/lib/gstreamer-1.0
. (Actually I use /run/current-system
instead.)
Should this environment variable be set when the package is installed? How do other distributions do this?
(Without that Rhythmbox outputs
Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|rhythmbox|Windows Media Audio 8 decoder|decoder-audio/x-wma, wmaversion=(int)2, bitrate=(int)128016
It didn't cause a crash for me though; that was probably a separate issue that was since fixed.)
Issue description
rhythmbox can't import some file types in my music directory and lists those under import-error. the according error message is always
where:
i understand why the wma and aac decoder aren't installed by default, but kinda expected opus and wav to be playable.
at the bottom right there is a button saying 'Install Additional Software'. when I press that, it crashes. the backtrace is below.
installing gstreamer plugins doesn't change anything. how am I supposed to add more plugins?
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