Re: [gentoo-desktop] Mouseover on audio files

[Lindsay Haisley]

Well when you can't find a scalpel, use an axe - or at least a paring
knife.  I noted that I didn't have the USE=mp3 flag set in make.conf, so
I set it and re-emerged everything I could think of that might be
related, some of it being updated, too - nautilus, gstreamer, esound,
gst-plugins-*, and a number of other stuff got pulled into the emerge as
well.

The end result is that now I can mouseover on an mp3 file and get an
audio preview :-)

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 15:47 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:31 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > How do I get sound files to preview when I mouseover an icon?  I have my
> > preferences set to "Preview sound files: -> Always" but when I mouseover
> > audio files they don't play.  Doing a "ps auxw" with and without a
> > mouseover in progess shows no difference in the running processes, so my
> > guess is that something should be running that isn't.
> >
> > Is this a GStreamer issue?  Should gst-launch be running, and if so
> > shouldn't it auto-start when I log in to a gnome session?  I looked at
> > the man page for gst-launch and it's a regular bear.  There must be some
> > facility that manages it so that I don't have to do it myself.
> >
> > This works on my Ubuntu-based laptop, and _used_ to work on my Gentoo
> > desktop, but hasn't worked for a while.  It would be handy to get it
> > working again.
> >
>
> For older nautilus (2.20 and older) you need the esd use flag.  For
> newer nautilus, if you don't have esd, it falls back on totem to play
> them.  Can totem play the files in question?  Maybe you need specific
> use flags on gst-plugins-meta for the files in question?
>
> Dan

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