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gnome-codec-install package

  1. Bug #851481
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 851481

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

> Do you have the universe repository enabled on this system? Perhaps
> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad aren't visible in your
> package manager config.

It is very odd, but I found that temporarily pointing GST_PLUGIN_PATH to point to the 32-bit gstreamer plugin directory (/usr/lib32/gstreamer-0.10) fixed the problem; presumably gstreamer reset whatever configuration was broken. I documented it in bug #856988.