On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 01:16 PM, Alex Combas wrote: > > So basically I was wondering if I am suppost to do something special to > make gstreamer work with AlSA or JACK.. obviousely there must be some > sort of gotcha somewhere that Im not aware of. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15825 : "Side note: gstreamer's alsa support is not fully done yet. To prevent a crash once you try and play something, use gconf-editor or similar to set the /system/gstreamer/defaults/audiosink parameter to "osssink" instead of "alsasink" and use the OSS compatibility libraries. This tidbit also comes from Colin, and given the fact I use alsa, it solves a crashing issue I was having with rhythmbox for a while." j.