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gnome-app-install package

Automatic codec installation for MPEG-4 AAC audio doesn't occur

Bug #182300 reported by kripken
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Bug Description

There seems to be an issue with gstreamer-0.10-plugins-bad versus gstreamer-0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse.

Symptoms: I am on a fresh install of Hardy Alpha 3. Automatic codec installation for the most part worked fine, except for one hitch: Videos with MPEG-4 AAC audio don't work. Totem realizes it is missing the codec, the automation codec installation dialog comes up, and searches for codecs. It installed some, but sound wouldn't play. Re-trying the file, Totem again realizes it is missing the codec, but now the automatic codec installation says it can't find a codec and gives up. The file now plays without audio (video though is ok).

Investigating this, the issue is as follows: gstreamer-0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse was installed automatically, but not gstreamer-0.10-plugins-bad (i.e. without the 'multiverse'). Installing this latter package manually makes everything work ok. So, the problem seems to be that automatic codec installation thinks that MPEG-4 AAC audio needs -bad-multiverse, when *really* what it needs is -bad, without multiverse (or perhaps both).

(Looking at previous bugs, bug #89999 seems similar - but not sure. It has been fixed, so perhaps not relevant.)

Note: I tried to put 'gstreamer' or 'gstreamer-0.10' in the package area for this bug, but Launchpad has a problem: it finds "gstreamer" when I press "choose" to search for the package, but won't file the bug because it then says the package doesn't exist in Ubuntu.

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote :

Package hint: gnome-app-install

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Adam Caldwell (adam-caldwell-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I'm having the same problem with rhythmbox. Everytime I launch it says codecs are needed to play back some file, but upon launching gnome-codec-install, it says there is no suitable plugin available.

Rythmbox terminal output as follows:
Rhythmbox-Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|rhythmbox-metadata|MPEG-4 AAC decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, framed=(boolean)true (ignoring)
Rhythmbox-Message: All missing plugins are blacklisted, doing nothing

This is pretty annoying, though as original reporter noted, installing gstreamer-0.10-plugins-bad manually fixes the problem.

Bug seen in hardy, rhythmbox-0.11.4-0ubuntu6, gnome-app-install-0.5.2.4-0ubuntu1.

Changed in gnome-app-install:
status: New → Confirmed
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.

Changed in gnome-app-install (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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