GStreamer won't play anything (almost)

[Ulli]

Right now I'm at an Ubuntu system, but I plan to migrate to Fedora (so I'm trying it out in VMWare).

The problem is that gstreamer does not work for many formats. (The same files as on Ubuntu, and even the same versions of gstreamer installed.)

I installed gstreamer-plugins-* from freshrpms.net (I considered livna.org, but they don't have a gstreamer-plugins-bad; why, by the way?). I need the "bad" plugins, as they contain the AAC support.

Rhythmbox now plays both ogg and mp3 (covered by ...-ugly and ...-base/good I think), but it does not play aac files (ripped with iTunes, no DRM). An explicit import (or trying to play the aac in Totem) gives me the error "can't decode stream".

Totem plays neither divx-avi files nor mpeg2-files. It doesn't give an error but simply doesn't do anything.

Has anybody got gstreamer working in FC 6? I like Fedora (doesn't look as brownish-ugly as Ubuntu; is 100% free), but these are real stoppers for me.

[Dies]

Originally Posted by Ulli

Has anybody got gstreamer working in FC 6?

Probably no one has bothered to.

I personally prefer Totem-xine and Amarok, but I'm sure some people still use the stock Gnome stuff and can tell you how they got it all working.

[Ulli]

Well, I'm making some progress finding things out.

On my Ubuntu system it's gstreamer-plugins-ffmpeg that enables watching movies (at least the avi, not sure about the mpeg). In a virtual Gentoo I could reproduce that, but in the virtual Fedora movies still don't play.

On the Ubuntu it's gstreamer-plugins-bad-multiverse... or something like that that enables AAC/M4a playback. That's a package that depends on gstreamer-plugins-bad, i.e. extends it. Unfortunately the whole web doesn't give me any information on what that package contains, where it is, who built it, from what sources ...

So I'm stuck with the choice between my current Ubuntu (runs 100%, but ugly branding), the Gentoo (even in VMWare as fast as my Ubuntu on the real iron; doesn't play AAC audio), and the Fedora (looks good, is fast enough, has better configuration than Ubuntu IMHO, more "standard" than Gentoo, but plays almost none of my multimedia, even with those extra packages).



I'd really like to know what those Ubuntu hacks did to those gstreamer-plugins... (it's even the same version)