Rhythmbox: "Could not start pipeline playing"

[Nadeem Bitar]

On 月, 2004-06-28 at 11:29 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> There was a similar thread some weeks ago ("rhythmbox, cannot pause
> playback"), slightly different, but the results look the same.
> 
> Briefly: start "gstreamer-properties" on a command line or from the menù
> item "Prefs/More Prefs/Multimedia System Selector", and play with the
> "default audio sink".
> 
> This should be "alsasink" by default, but it doesn't work for me, so I
> turned to "esd" and it works fine!
> 
> Clearly, it could not be the same solution for you, but it's very
> straightforward to test, so it's worth try.
> 
> Hope it helps...
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately that didn't work for me.
Hopefully Fedora Core 3 would sort all these problems.


> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 09:32, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
> > I am not able to play any music files from rhythmbox. I get a "could not
> > start pipeline playing" error. 
> > I do not get this error if i run rhythmbox as root. 
> > I also tried updating both gstreamer and rhythmbox also ran gst-
> > register.
> > 
> > Any ideas? 
> > 
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