Rhythmbox doen't play

[Matthew Nicholson]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 06:41 +0200, Jochen Skulj wrote:
> Since a couple of days I have major problems using rhythmbox. It often
> occurs that it doesn't play. Instead of this, the progress slider keeps
> standing at 0:00 and jumps back to that position if I try to drag it on
> another position.
> 
> If I start rhythmbox in a terminal I get following warning:
> 
> (rhythmbox:5480): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to start mDNS browsing
> 

this has to do with dapp (iTunes) music sharing. its harmless. it means
the avahi-daemon package isn't installed, do it cannot browse for
shares/share your music. it shouldn't have anything to do with the other
problems you reported. 
> This problem occurs quite often, but  not always. Until now I haven't
> found a better solution than booting in these cases. There might be some
> process blocking the audio system (which I may can kill), but I don't
> know which.
> 
> From my point of view this problem exists since the recent major Gnome
> update. I can't remember having issues with rhythmbox under Dapper before.
> 

what rhythmbox version are you running? ubuntu? do you have the
gstreamer-plugins for whatever type of audio file your attempting to
play installed? rhythmbox has moved to gstreamer-10, from 8, so if you
used to have them, you might not now. 
> A quite similar problem might exist in using totem but I don't start
> totem that often.
> 
> Does anyone has the same problem? Is there a solution?
> 
> Thanks, Jochen
-- 
Matthew Nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com>
sjoeboo.com
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