banshee cant play m4a files

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Did a recent upgrade of KDE desktop to 4.3.1.

Everything seemed to go OK, but one effect was I cant play .m4a files in banshee. Have looked at all the previous posts on this topic but with no effect.

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Any ideas check that any one has would be welcomed.

Here’s what I have installed;

@babylon:~> rpm --query --all ‘libav*’ ‘libpostproc*’ ‘libswscale*’ ‘xine’ ‘gst’ MPlayer ‘vlc’ | grep -v avahi | sort
amarok-xine-1.4.10-26.2.1
banshee-1-backend-engine-gstreamer-1.4.1-2.12
gst-fluendo-mp3-2-37.3
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.23-42.pm.44.1
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg-0.10.7-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.10-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.23-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux-0.10.4-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-lang-0.10.23-42.pm.44.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.13-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-lang-0.10.13-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.23-42.pm.42.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-lang-0.10.23-42.pm.42.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-farsight-0.12.11-0.pm.5
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.15-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra-0.10.15-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-lang-0.10.15-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-lang-0.10.12-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-utils-0.10.23-42.pm.44.1
gstreamer-utils-0.10.23-42.pm.44.1
libavc1394-0-0.5.3-129.6
libavcodec52-0.5-1.pm.8.2
libavdevice52-0.5-1.pm.8.2
libavformat52-0.5-1.pm.8.2
libavutil49-0.5-1.pm.8.2
libgstapp-0_10-0-0.10.8-6.5
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.3
libgstphotography-0_10-0-0.10.13-42.pm.1
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.44.1
libpostproc51-0.5-1.pm.8.2
libswscale0-0.5-1.pm.8.2
libxine1-1.1.16.3-2.pm.5.3
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.5.3
MPlayer-1.0rc2_r29116-2.pm.28.1
phonon-backend-gstreamer-0_10-4.3.1-31.1
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-31.1
xinetd-2.3.14-129.35
xine-ui-0.99.5-221.38

and here is the Packman repo confirmations

@babylon:~> rpm --query --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH} → %{VENDOR}
’ gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg-0.10.7-42.pm.1-x86_64 → PackMan :: Startseite
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.10-42.pm.1-x86_64 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.23-42.pm.1-x86_64 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux-0.10.4-42.pm.1-x86_64 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.13-42.pm.1-x86_64 → PackMan :: Startseite
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.23-42.pm.42.3-x86_64 → PackMan :: Startseite
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.15-42.pm.1-x86_64 → PackMan :: Startseite
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra-0.10.15-42.pm.1-x86_64 → PackMan :: Startseite
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-42.pm.1-x86_64 → PackMan :: Startseite

Banshee version:
@babylon:~> rpm --query --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH} → %{VENDOR}
’ banshee-1-1.4.3-3.1 banshee-1-backend-engine-gstreamer-1.4.3-3.1 banshee-1-backend-platform-unix-1.4.3-3.1 banshee-1-extensions-default-1.4.3-3.1 banshee-1-lang-1.4.3-3.1
banshee-1-1.4.3-3.1-x86_64 → openSUSE Build Service
banshee-1-backend-engine-gstreamer-1.4.3-3.1-x86_64 → openSUSE Build Service
banshee-1-backend-platform-unix-1.4.3-3.1-x86_64 → openSUSE Build Service
banshee-1-extensions-default-1.4.3-3.1-x86_64 → openSUSE Build Service
banshee-1-lang-1.4.3-3.1-x86_64 → openSUSE Build Service

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Since you have kde, try first to see that totem or amarok plays them.
Totem should give an error.
Try adding libmp4 from packman.

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Nice one, it was a problem with the libmp4 version…wasnt from Packman repo. Re-installed and all is now working. Cheers Whych.

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Check the other codecs as well. You’re/you were in a mix of Videolan and Packman packages.

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As Knurpht says, you only need the libdvdcss package from vlc.
Install it, then disable the vlc repo.
In general, get everything else from packman unless there is a compelling reason not to. When done, disable the repo again, keeping only packman.

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As I said all sorted, only had libdvdcss from vlc and it was disabled. Thanks again for the help