Well when you can't find a scalpel, use an axe - or at least a paring knife. I noted that I didn't have the USE=mp3 flag set in make.conf, so I set it and re-emerged everything I could think of that might be related, some of it being updated, too - nautilus, gstreamer, esound, gst-plugins-*, and a number of other stuff got pulled into the emerge as well.
The end result is that now I can mouseover on an mp3 file and get an audio preview :-) On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 15:47 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:31 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > How do I get sound files to preview when I mouseover an icon? I have my > > preferences set to "Preview sound files: -> Always" but when I mouseover > > audio files they don't play. Doing a "ps auxw" with and without a > > mouseover in progess shows no difference in the running processes, so my > > guess is that something should be running that isn't. > > > > Is this a GStreamer issue? Should gst-launch be running, and if so > > shouldn't it auto-start when I log in to a gnome session? I looked at > > the man page for gst-launch and it's a regular bear. There must be some > > facility that manages it so that I don't have to do it myself. > > > > This works on my Ubuntu-based laptop, and _used_ to work on my Gentoo > > desktop, but hasn't worked for a while. It would be handy to get it > > working again. > > > > For older nautilus (2.20 and older) you need the esd use flag. For > newer nautilus, if you don't have esd, it falls back on totem to play > them. Can totem play the files in question? Maybe you need specific > use flags on gst-plugins-meta for the files in question? > > Dan -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage to make |<http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | toast" | | (Cheryl Dehut) |
