Re: Trouble with GstLaunch

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Sa, 2012-04-21 at 21:30 -0400, Paul Coccoli wrote:
> I'm trying to share an internet radio station with Rygel so I can
> listen using my LG Blu-Ray player (BD570).  The player sees rygel, and
> plays MP3s fine (but not FLACs, but that's for another thread).  I
> probably don't really understand how it's all supposed to work, so I
> have some questions:
> 
> 1. How do /etc/rygel.conf and and ~/.config/rygel.conf coexist?  Does
> the user's conf completely override the system's?
> 2. When the GstLaunch plugin is enabled, it shows up as a different
> server than the MediaExport plugin.  That's fine, I guess, but I don't
> really understand why.  Does it still use the same port?

Because it has nothing to to with the MediaExport server. Each plugin is
its own server. It should use the same port for control.

> 3. I have the plugin configured like this:
> 
> [GstLaunch]
> enabled=true
> launch-items=wabe
> wabe-title=WABE
> wabe-mime=audio/mpeg
> wabe-launch=playbin uri=http://pba-ice.streamguys.org:80/wabe

That's wrong. Playbin would play the the file on the computer running
rygel. See
http://jensge.org/2010/05/simple-web-radio-sharing-with-rygel/ for an
example.

> 
> When I select Gst Launch/WABE on my player, I get nothing.  Running
> rygel from the command line, I see this:
> 
> (rygel:15673): Rygel-WARNING **: rygel-http-request.vala:91: Invalid
> seek request
> 
> (rygel:15673): Rygel-WARNING **: rygel-http-request.vala:91: Invalid
> seek request
> 
> (rygel:15673): Rygel-WARNING **: rygel-http-request.vala:91: Invalid
> seek request
> 
> (rygel:15673): Rygel-WARNING **: rygel-http-request.vala:91: Invalid 
> seek request

That's probably bug 659432
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659432). You could try to
apply the patch from the bug and see if that helps.