Re: (GNOME) Totem and "Mutlimedia Systems Selector" issues

["Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 5/25/06, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakheshster%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have GNOME 2.14 from pkgsrc installed on my NetBSD machine. If I
> start totem from the command line (even without a movie file), it
> gives me an error message "The video output is in use by another
> application. Please close other video applications, or select another
> video output in the Multimedia Systems Selector" and refuses to play.
>
> I have no other application using the video output. So if I go to the
> "Multimedia Systems Selector", I find that there's two options for the
> video output plugin: "autodetect", and "custom". Choosing either and
> clicking on test gives me an error message: "could not initialize
> supporting library".
>
> I can play videos using VLC for instance, so I know the video and
> codecs etc are all fine. Just that something seems missing/
> misconfigured in my GNOME/ Totem/ GStreamer etc configuration. Any
> ideas please?

Can you try installing x11/gst-plugins0.10-x11 by hand and seeing if
it solves your problems?  Thanks.

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