<Resolved>Clementine: Missing Plug-in

[Ray2047]

When I attempt to play a .wav file in Clementine I get an error" missing gstreamer plugin" but it doesn't say which one. I can use VCL or Kaffiene so not a big problem but I thought I'd fix it if I could.

[Yankee]

When I attempt to play a .wav file in Clementine I get an error" missing gstreamer plugin" but it doesn't say which one. I can use VCL or Kaffiene so not a big problem but I thought I'd fix it if I could.

gstreamers-good, bad, ugly, base, ffmpeg, soup

Those cover 99% of the codecs out there.

[Archie]

The subject really depends on a user's perspective. Codecs are easily installable via Synaptic.

There are users who don't have .wav, .rma, wma, etc. but we have codecs for those. Some apps will easily play them without the need to install win32-codecs or similar. These codecs are not missing rather they are left out for the users to install if they need them.

Packages can be built without these as necessary while other apps can only be built if they are present.

I personally do not like an app that has everything on it while I will only use under half of those that are available to it and the other half would not be used.

[Ray2047]

 Ferdes Fides wrote:

gstreamers-good, bad, ugly, base, ffmpeg, soup

Already installed. I reinstalled and no change.

Archie, I respect your opinion but was there an answer in there? I am using fully updated full KDE install. It came with Clementine as the default player for .wav files so it seems odd it won't play them.

[Archie]

Ferdes Fides wrote:

gstreamers-good, bad, ugly, base, ffmpeg, soup

Already installed. I reinstalled and no change.

Archie, I respect your opinion but was there an answer in there? I am using fully updated full KDE install. It came with Clementine as the default player for .wav files so it seems odd it won't play them.

win32-codecs.

[Ray2047]

win32-codecs.

Well dang, I thought I had those installed but I didn't. Thanks. But it didn't fix the problem. I installed "win32-codecs-all". Should I have installed the "Win32-Codecs" instead? Seemed like "all" would be more inclusive.

[Archie]

win32-codecs.

Well dang, I thought I had those installed but I didn't. Thanks. But it didn't fix the problem. I installed "win32-codecs-all". Should i have installed the "Win32-Codecs" instead? Seemed like "all" would be more inclusive.

-all is good. Wow ... have you tried mjpegtools-1.9.0? libwavpack1-4.60.1? libboost1.42.0? All these have wav libs.

First check whether you have them installed. If not, start with the first on the list. If that works then you're good to go. If not, proceed to the next package. Hopefully, you can get this working. You might want to remove the previously installed packages that didn't help.

Good luck.

[Ray2047]

I am considering just resetting the default to VCL. Doesn't make sense hardly to  install all this other stuff when there are other programs that will handle it. As you said, keep it simple. Thank you for your help.

[Yankee]

I am considering just resetting the default to VCL. Doesn't make sense hardly to  install all this other stuff when there are other programs that will handle it. As you said, keep it simple. Thank you for your help.

Sorry I thought those gstreamers would cover that.
Once again, some secret codec library req'd,  like faac and faad used to be,
now they're in gstreamer-bad.

[Ray2047]

I didn't try your last suggestions. Just seemed too complicated for a result that could be obtained an easier way, changing default player to VLC.

[Yankee]

I didn't try your last suggestions. Just seemed too complicated for a result that could be obtained an easier way, changing default player to VCL.

+1 +1 +1

VLC has the sound.