MP3s stopped working all of a sudden in Totem

Silpheed2K · #1 27th August 2008, 12:11 PM

For some reason... I was doing my daily tasks and all of a sudden... MP3s stopped working.
I just thought a restart would fix it but that was not the case and MP3s still dont work when I reboot it.

When I try to play MP3s I get this message

"Totem could not play '/home/samplename/Music/Robyn/Robyn - Robyn/05 - Bum Like You.mp3'.
There is no plugin to handle this movie."

Anybody know what the problem is? and also thanks to anybody who helps.

Edit: also to note if I havent mentioned yet.. I've reinstalled my current codecs and even tried installing new codecs but Totem still gives me the same error message. Anybody know what the problem could be?

Dies · #2 28th August 2008, 02:36 AM

Run

Code:

rm -rf .gstreamer-0.10/
gst-inspect-0.10 | grep mp3

You should see something like

Code:

mpegaudioparse:  mp3parse: MPEG1 Audio Parser
lame:  lame: L.A.M.E. mp3 encoder
flump3dec:  flump3dec: Fluendo MP3 Decoder (liboil build)
mad:  mad: mad mp3 decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdemux_mp3: FFMPEG MPEG audio demuxer
ffmpeg:  ffdec_mp3on4: FFMPEG MP3ON4 decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdec_mp3adu: FFMPEG ADU-formatted MPEG-1 layer 3 audio decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdec_mp3: FFMPEG MPEG-1 layer 3 audio decoder
ffmpeg:  ffenc_mp3: FFMPEG MPEG-1 layer 3 audio encoder
typefindfunctions: audio/mpeg: mp3, mp2, mp1, mpga
typefindfunctions: application/x-id3v1: mp3, mp2, mp1, mpga, ogg, flac, tta
typefindfunctions: application/x-id3v2: mp3, mp2, mp1, mpga, ogg, flac, tta

If you don't, post the output from.

Code:

rpm -qa | grep gstreamer

Silpheed2K · #3 28th August 2008, 07:03 AM

If I changed the totem backend to xine... is it still using gstreamer?
just curious before i remove gstreamer

Silpheed2K · #4 28th August 2008, 12:26 PM

Okay I did what you said and I got this output

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# rm -rf .gstreamer-0.10/
[root@localhost ~]# gst-inspect-0.10 | grep mp3

** (gst-inspect-0.10:3852): WARNING **: Unknown codec ID 86022, please add here
lame:  lame: L.A.M.E. mp3 encoder
typefindfunctions: audio/mpeg: mp3, mp2, mp1, mpga
typefindfunctions: application/x-id3v1: mp3, mp2, mp1, mpga, ogg, flac, tta
typefindfunctions: application/x-id3v2: mp3, mp2, mp1, mpga, ogg, flac, tta
mad:  mad: mad mp3 decoder
mpegaudioparse:  mp3parse: MPEG1 Audio Parser
ffmpeg:  ffdemux_mp3: FFMPEG MPEG audio demuxer
ffmpeg:  ffdec_mp3on4: FFMPEG MP3ON4 decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdec_mp3adu: FFMPEG ADU-formatted MPEG-1 layer 3 audio decoder
ffmpeg:  ffdec_mp3: FFMPEG MPEG-1 layer 3 audio decoder
ffmpeg:  ffenc_libmp3lame: FFMPEG MPEG-1 layer 3 audio encoder

Also the other commands.. and I added xine since I put xine as Totem's backend

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.5.svn20070924.fc9.i386
gstreamer-tools-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386
totem-gstreamer-2.23.2-5.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.8-1.lvn9.i386
gstreamer-python-0.10.11-2.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-2.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.8-8.fc9.i386
gstreamer-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.7-1.lvn9.i386
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.19-2.fc9.i386
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.4-1.lvn9.i386
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep xine
xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.12-1.lvn9.i386
xine-lib-1.1.12-2.fc9.i386
xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.12-2.fc9.i386
totem-xine-2.23.2-5.fc9.i386

Dies · #5 28th August 2008, 03:37 PM

Is there a reason to have both totem-gstreamer and totem-xine installed?

Pick one.

Aside from that, don't know I don't use xine, I was under the impression that the whole point of using it was that it "just works" without any hassles.

Silpheed2K · #6 28th August 2008, 03:52 PM

Only Xine was installed when this problem popped up.. so I tried switching it to gstreamer and I got the same results.. Xine use to work fine, until I don't know what came over it or happened to it. It just seems messed up on MP3s now... and I tried switching it to gstreamer and reinstalling my codecs as stated before.
I still appreciate you taking the time to help of course.

Silpheed2K · #7 28th August 2008, 04:42 PM

I fixed it myself... I uninstalled Totem completely...
if you're having the same problems with xine library and totem just run the following as root.

Code:

# yum remove totem
# yum install totem
# yum install totem-mozplugin
# yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg

the Livna repository is probably required as I use it.

Hope this helps somebody who has the same problem... my Totem's on gstreamer now (even though I liked Xine lib better but it's fixed for now)