[SOLVED] Rhythmbox not playing m4a files

[niemand]

When I try to play an m4a file, Rhythmbox displays a message requiring the following plugin:
MPEG-4 AAC decoder

Where do I find this? Is it valid?

I've verified that gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is installed.

Running Gnome on Mageia 3.

Thanks.

[doktor5000]

Well, I'm not using rhythmbox but seems that it requires the newer gstreamer1.0 plugins, on initial install it wants to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly from tainted here. But anyways, you probably miss the plugin to decode aac sound, gstreamer1.0-faad or gstreamer0.10-faad

Can you please show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep faad

[niemand]

It returns nothing:

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$ rpm -qa | grep faad
$


I went to Control Center and installed gstreamer0.10-faad (gstreamer1.0 is not provided). Now that faad has been installed:

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$ rpm -qa | grep faad
gstreamer0.10-faad-0.10.23-11.mga3.tainted
lib64faad2-2.7-6.mga3.tainted


But Rhythmbox continues to give me the same error message.

[doktor5000]

I went to Control Center and installed gstreamer0.10-faad (gstreamer1.0 is not provided

Well, you probably need to check your repos, gstreamer1.0-faad is there:

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[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ urpmf -f --name -m gstreamer | grep faad
gstreamer0.10-faad-0.10.23-11.mga3.tainted.x86_64:Tainted Release
gstreamer1.0-faad-1.0.5-3.mga3.tainted.x86_64:Tainted Release
gstreamer0.10-faad-0.10.23-11.mga3.tainted.i586:Tainted 32bit Release
gstreamer1.0-faad-1.0.5-3.mga3.tainted.i586:Tainted 32bit Release

Apart from that, you could take a look at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24381

And you could play one of those m4a files via mplayer and post the output here.

[niemand]

Found them. I installed gstreamer1.0 faad and plugins-ugly and Rhythmbox is now able to play m4a files.

Thanks.