2010
05.26

GStreamer Isn’t Showing My Newly Installed Codec

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Sometimes Totem/Rhythmbox/Jokosher and other apps that use GStreamer tell you they are missing a codec, so then you start Synaptic (or your package manager of choice) and install the appropriate codecs. Sometimes however the application keeps nagging about the codec. You can see what codecs GStreamer recognises using the gst-inspect-0.10 command, if you really have installed the proper codec, and gst-inspect-0.10 doesn’t see the codec, you might need to cleanup GStreamer’s cache (at your own risk):

# rm -Rf ~/.gstreamer-0.10

I’ve had a similar problem installing LADSPA plugins for use with Jokosher (Jokosher accesses LADSPA plugins via GStreamer as well).

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