Re: [Banshee-List] Video but no sound

["Sandy Armstrong" <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

2008/6/10 Christopher James Halse Rogers <chalserogers gmail com>:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 23:18 +0100, Stephen Holmes wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 17:12 -0500, Gabriel Burt wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Stephen Holmes <stephen onedotone com> wrote:
>> > > Just messing around with my openSUSE 11.0 install (latest patches up to
>> > > RC4/GM).  MP4 video (video podcasts) play just fine, but there's no
>> > > audio.  Playing in mplayer is just fine.
>> > >
>> > > Running with --debug, I get...
>> > >
>> > > [Debug 23:10:42.386] Player state change: Idle -> Loading
>> > > ** Message: don't know how to handle audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4,
>> > > framed=(boolean)true, codec_data=(buffer)1210, rate=(int)44100,
>> > > channels=(int)2
>> >
>> > Sounds like you need a mp3 decoder for the audio data.
>> >
>>
>> Yeah, I'd thought that originally, so I installed fluendo-mp3 and other
>> components, aswell as a bunch of other mp2 and mp3 decoders.  The debug
>> log above though seems to want an version 4 for the mpegversion, so I
>> was wondering what decoder might help?
>
> MPEG 4 audio is also known as AAC, if I remember correctly.
> 'gst-inspect0.10 faad' on my system suggests that you should be able to
> find a decoder in a gstreamer-plugins-bad package from your package
> manager of choice.

And if that doesn't work, gstreamer-ffmpeg (gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg in
oS 11) is usually a pretty good shotgun approach to the codec problem.

Sandy