RESOLVED: Re: play wav attachment in evolution

[Michael Haney]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 09/16/2010 07:02 AM, Arnaud G wrote:
>> Thank you NoOp for your answer and links.
>>
>> I did try the file listed in  528793, and it works.
>>
>> Other files types are not working.
>>
>> I send myself and mp3, ogg, flac, wav, none of them play in evolution.
>>
>> I added, just to make sure, the following line in my
>> org-gnome-audio-inline-eplug
>> <item mime_type="audio/wav" format="org_gnome_audio_inline_format"
>> flags="inline_disposition"/>
>>
>> I already had a line for
>> audio/microsoft-wav
>> audio/x-wav
>> and even restarted the machine.  Result is the same. No audio playing in evo.
>>
>> I however did not have gstreamer installed
>>
>> After installing
>> libgstreamer0.10-0
>> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
>>
>> It all works.
>>
>> Tx again for your help.
>>
>> Arnaud
>
> Well done & glad you got it sorted out. Thanks for reporting back on
> what you did to get it working for you.
>

On a side note, none of this would have been an issue if the whole
licensing thing with media codecs wasn't so totally screwed up, but
that's a rant for another day.

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