gstreamer0.10-plugins-base dependency?

[ortango]

gnome-activity-journal 0.5.0.1-0ubuntu1

i installed, went to run it and I was getting playbin errors. After looking around i installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-base.

dpkg -S playbin
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base: /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstplaybin.so

but its not a gaj dependency, shouldn't it be?

also is it not possible to use assigned mime to get thumbnails or whatever. i don't like gstreamer and use my own ffmpegthumbs solution. that would be pretty nice.

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

You want to say that when you hover the mouse over the video, the video doesn't run or GAJ doesn't start at all?

[ortango (ortango)]

does not start at all.

[Stefano Candori (cando)]

HI ortango!Thanks for your bug report.
Please open GAJ from a terminal and past here what you get.

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

I will try adding this package as dependency when I package GAJ in my PPA. Will pass the link. Please try it out that time

[Stefano Candori (cando)]

Revision 1181 fixes that bug! Ortango please check it out and tell me if you get again this error...
If gstreamer is not installed gaj "fails" silently...

[ortango (ortango)]

will this be rebuild in the ppa? because i dont have all the dev packages to pull this and test it

[Stefano Candori (cando)]

yeah Manish should package it and add gstreamer as a Recommended dependece...please keep tuned.

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

I will package it, set the bug status to Fix Released and post the PPA link. You can then come and install

Thanks for reporting the bug.

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

I have packaged it
https://launchpad.net/~manishsinha/+archive/experimental

GAJ 0.6.0 needs Zeitgeist 0.7

[ortango (ortango)]

grabbed it - gstreamer0.10-plugins-base is in the recommends part of the control, shouldn't it be a depend?
gaj will not start (at least for me) without it installed.

[Stefano Candori (cando)]

Mmm..gstreamer it's not a dep because in case you don't have it, GAJ should
start anyway: you only can't see video previews....or at least this is the
behaviour we want.
Please past here the output you get on the terminal...

2011/1/31 ortango <email address hidden>

> grabbed it - gstreamer0.10-plugins-base is in the recommends part of the
> control, shouldn't it be a depend?
> gaj will not start (at least for me) without it installed.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705545
>
> Title:
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base dependency?
>
> Status in GNOME Activity Journal:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> gnome-activity-journal 0.5.0.1-0ubuntu1
>
> i installed, went to run it and I was getting playbin errors. After
> looking around i installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-base.
>
> dpkg -S playbin
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base: /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstplaybin.so
>
> but its not a gaj dependency, shouldn't it be?
>
> also is it not possible to use assigned mime to get thumbnails or
> whatever. i don't like gstreamer and use my own ffmpegthumbs solution.
> that would be pretty nice.
>
>
>

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

Please start gaj from terminal and tell what error you getting.

[ortango (ortango)]

$ gnome-activity-journal
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 101, in <module>
    from src.main import PortalWindow
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/main.py", line 31, in <module>
    from activity_widgets import MultiViewContainer, TimelineViewContainer, ThumbViewContainer
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/activity_widgets.py", line 40, in <module>
    from supporting_widgets import DayLabel, ContextMenu, StaticPreviewTooltip, VideoPreviewTooltip, SearchBox,\
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/supporting_widgets.py", line 1464, in <module>
    VideoPreviewTooltip = VideoPreviewTooltip()
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/supporting_widgets.py", line 646, in __init__
    self.player = gst.element_factory_make("playbin", "player")
gst.ElementNotFoundError: playbin

[ortango (ortango)]

@Stefano Candori
I guess rather then as I put it originally the bug has to do with python calling playbin even if it doesn't exist.

[Stefano Candori (cando)]

Ortango please check out the trunk version of GAJ...I should have finally fixed it.
Again, thanks very much for your help!

[Randal Barlow (email-tehk)]

It seems playbin is now a plugin in gst. Stefano's recent changes should have resolved the issues in trunk. It should fail gracefully if the element does not exist but gst does. I still prefer gst and this plugin to be a considered recommended and not a dependency.