On 21 January 2013 11:04, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:48:25 +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > >> Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. >> But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall >> gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And that seems to >> have done the trick. > > Dubious. I wish people would stop suggesting that reinstalling packages > fixes something. Seldomly it does. For example, when the installed files > have been damaged or deleted, which is something RPM can check. Then > reinstalling the packages restores the files. Or when the packages contain > install-time scripts, which process something (that is not the case here, > however). More often than not, reinstalling packages does not change > anything at all. > > Reinstalling gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good (both > packages from Fedora) is very unlikely to fix decoding of MPEG and MP3. I was dubious too. But it worked. I think it was something to do with forcing the plugins to be registered. Dave.. -- Dave Cross :: dave@xxxxxxxxxxx http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
