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On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:31 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> How do I get sound files to preview when I mouseover an icon? I have my |
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> preferences set to "Preview sound files: -> Always" but when I mouseover |
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> audio files they don't play. Doing a "ps auxw" with and without a |
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> mouseover in progess shows no difference in the running processes, so my |
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> guess is that something should be running that isn't. |
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> Is this a GStreamer issue? Should gst-launch be running, and if so |
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> shouldn't it auto-start when I log in to a gnome session? I looked at |
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> the man page for gst-launch and it's a regular bear. There must be some |
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> facility that manages it so that I don't have to do it myself. |
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> This works on my Ubuntu-based laptop, and _used_ to work on my Gentoo |
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> desktop, but hasn't worked for a while. It would be handy to get it |
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> working again. |
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For older nautilus (2.20 and older) you need the esd use flag. For |
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newer nautilus, if you don't have esd, it falls back on totem to play |
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them. Can totem play the files in question? Maybe you need specific |
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use flags on gst-plugins-meta for the files in question? |
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Dan |
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