Bug#866339: gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly: fails to play mp3 files

[Martin Bergström]

On 2017-06-29 07:38, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> 1.12.1 does not have the mad plugin anymore but uses mpg123 instead. Is
> your problem maybe that you had gst-plugins-ugly 1.12.1 installed
> together with libgstreamer1.0-0 1.10 before?

I dunno, I have 1.12.1 of  libgstreamer1.0-0 now anyway.

> You can check with
>   $ gst-inspect-1.0 -b
>
> Are any plugins blacklisted? If so, now that all versions are in sync
> again you could try deleting
>    ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.*.bin
> and then try again.

$ LC_ALL=C gst-inspect-1.0 -b
Blacklisted files:
   libgstcdio.so
   libgstdvdlpcmdec.so
   libgstdvdread.so
   libgstrealmedia.so
   libgstlibav.so
   libgstsid.so
   libgstamrnb.so
   libgstlame.so
   libgsttwolame.so
   libgstamrwbdec.so
   libgstdvdsub.so
   libgstasf.so
   libgstmpg123.so
   libgsta52dec.so
   libgstxingmux.so
   libgstx264.so
   libgstmpeg2dec.so

martin at kylie:~$ ls -l .cache/gstreamer-1.0/
totalt 1308
-rw------- 1 martin martin 658242 jun 28 19:35 registry.x86_64.bin
-rw------- 1 martin martin 679552 apr 21  2014 registry.x86_64.bin.tmp5KZUEX
martin at kylie:~$ rm .cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.x86_64.bin*
martin at kylie:~$ LC_ALL=C gst-inspect-1.0 -b
Blacklisted files:

Total count: 0 blacklisted files

martin at kylie:~$ LC_ALL=C gst-play-1.0 
media/incoming/doyouneedaride-ep-98-karen-and-chris.mp3
Press 'k' to see a list of keyboard shortcuts.
Now playing 
/home/martin/media/incoming/doyouneedaride-ep-98-karen-and-chris.mp3
Redistribute latency...
0:00:07.3 / 1:24:02.3


I have no idea why plugins were blacklisted. Anyway: Success! Thank you!

/Martin