Published by Nick on 17 Feb 2008 at 05:27 pm
Gentoo OSS v4 Gstreamer Support
Thanks to the hard work of Seawright over on the official 4Front OSS forums who actually the made the patch i use.
This is a modified ebuild for gst-plugins-oss as Gentoo breaks out a lot of the plugins found in upstreams gst-plugins-good package, use this to allow gstreamer to use OSS v4 (and so get sound in Gnome and its programs).
Untar this to a media-plugins folder in your local overlay (usually /usr/local/portage) . Then it should just be a case of (re)emerging gst-plugins-oss.
If once you have done this and have rebooted/restarted X and still get no sound then check that you have a /dev/dsp node. If it is missing (as it was for me) you should be able to do a ln -sf /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp and then everything should work as expected.
Download: gst-plugins-oss-0.10.6.tar.bz2
Kieran on 11 Mar 2008 at 2:23 pm #
Hi there!
I am hoping you will be able to help me out with your Gstreamer support download. By no means am I saying it doesn’t work for me; however, I will confess that I don’t really know what I’m doing: I’ve only had Ubuntu for about a week now, and have been able to figure out up to this point that I require your download in order to get sound. I have a SB X-Fi card, and found the 4front Technologies website through research, and after reading more on Google I came across your website. I am curious: all I need to do is download your plugin and install it in the proper directory and, ideally, my sound should work? If so, could you tell me how to go about doing this, please? I went to /usr/local/portage, but once I went into /local, I found there was no /portage there. I do not know enough about Ubuntu/Linux yet to know where my media-plugins folder is, and this is where/how I’m hoping that you’ll be able to help.
Thank you in advance for your time;
Respectfully,
Kieran
Nick on 13 Mar 2008 at 6:28 pm #
Kieran, take a look at the 4front forums at this thread:
http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2357
That has a dead simple way to get gstreamer and OSS v4 working in ubuntu, all you need to do is figure out if you are running a 32 or 64bit install (run the command uname -a in a console and it should show x86_64 or something similar if you are 64bit).
Read through that thread as there are a couple of guides posted that explain exactly what you need to do
The reason you dont have a /usr/local/portage folder is because you run ubuntu and my guide was written for Gentoo (a different linux distro).
If you run into any more problems you may be better posting on the 4front forums in the linux section as there are quite a few others running OSS v4 and ubuntu who can help.
Regards
Nick