How come I am able to play m4a music files in :
- Amarok
- VLC Media Player
- MPlayer (with some flashing error messages though)
and not in :
- Banshee (asks to search for a suitable codec, but that leads me nowhere)
- Rhythmbox (same as Banshee)
- Totem (error message : GStreamer encountered a general stream error)
Shall I check the gstreamer libs that i have installed? How do I do that? Or shall I check something else?
I would really like to make it work in banshee because it’s the only music player that supports audio CDs correctly without crashing…
Thanks,
A total newbie :).
Doesn’t KsCD work for your music cd’s or Kaffeine?
I don’t have them installed (I’m on gnome / 11.2), so I cannot answer that question. I already feel like I have way too many multimedia applications that (should) do more or less the same thing, this is why I am surprised that some handle audio cds more gracefully than others, and that some play m4a files when others do not.
Followed the step-by-step multimedia tutorial and the problem is fixed :). I had a whole bunch of packages from the Videolan repository instead of Packman, and some broken dependencies also :P. Mea culpa, I guess I should have tried that first. But there is much information available, it’s a bit overwhelming for a newbie.
Anyway, congratulations on providing a very well written step-by-step troubleshooting guide!