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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] Mouseover on audio files
From:       Daniel Gryniewicz <dang () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2008-09-14 19:47:34
Message-ID: 1221421654.23768.137.camel () athena ! fprintf ! net
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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


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