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Thread: Gstreamer Bug in 12.04


hey everyone. have upgraded 12.04 , 1 of favourite programs has become broken result (minitube). after digging around appears due new version of gstreamer in precise repos. wish replicate bug quickly, happens in youtube addon totem, spitting out error missing codecs. tried downgrade gstreamer , various packages there not seem old versions available. tried use gstreamer's developers repo, epic fail on part. have tried change dependencies of minitube .deb rely on phonon-backend-vlc instead of phonon-backend-gstreamer lost. if google around see confirmed bug gstreamer there has yet fix or workaround.

appreciated.

i have bug on decoding & 1 on allowing vlc backend, not progress. suggested webupd8 ppa redo package, no luck there

anyway simple edit .deb, - i'll try lay out

might use 1.7 package webupd8 ppa & fix, should take less min.
wget's unless ppa updates names, page here for manual download if needed

in terminal

code:
mkdir desktop/fix && cd desktop/fix
if on 64 bit install
code:
wget https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8/+files/minitube_1.7.1-1%7ewebupd8%7eprecise_amd64.deb
if on 32 bit install
code:
wget https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8/+files/minitube_1.7.1-1%7ewebupd8%7eprecise_i386.deb
after download completes leave terminal open, open fix folder on desktop, right click on .deb > extract here
once extracted delete .deb, leaving folder - screen 1

open folder > debian. inside control file, open in text editor
on depends: line you'll see phonon-backend-gstreamer, want add between r & , add space after r
code:
| phonon-backend-vlc
so looks - see screen 2
code:
phonon-backend-gstreamer | phonon-backend-vlc,
save control file, close text-editor

@ terminal left open (at :~/desktop/fix$ prompt

64 bit
code:
 dpkg -b ./minitube_1.7.1-1~webupd8~precise_amd64
for 32 bit
code:
dpkg -b ./minitube_1.7.1-1~webupd8~precise_i386
once new deb built install gdebi or sc

after install open synaptic, search phonon-
install vlc backend & remove gstreamer backend
(edit: unless have vlc backend install, if you're go after minitube install
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