Re: [Muine] muine won't start

[Dave Beckett <dave dajobe org>]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 04:57:14 -0700
Peter Johanson <latexer gentoo org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:31:42AM +0200, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni
> wrote:
> > 
> > ~  An error occurred:
> > 
> > ~  Failed to initialize the audio backend:
> > ~  Could not find the volume element in the GstPlay pipeline
> > 
> > ~  Exiting..
> > \----
> > I use gstreamer 0.8.8-3 and muine 0.6.3-7 from Debian unstable..
> 
> This is a problem with muine-0.6.3 and 0.8.8. The libgstplay stuff
> changed the names of the internal elements, and consequently muine
> broke . Your best bet is to upgrade to muine-0.8.8, or you can try the
> patch gentoo is using found here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-sound/muine/files/muine-0.6.3-libgstplay.diff?rev=1.1&view=log
> 

Handy!  Since I maintain that for debian, I've pinched that patch to see
if it helps people.

Keywan: if you want to try the debs I made, get muine_0.6.3-8_i386.deb
from http://download.dajobe.org/debian/unstable/

Dave