Hi! Lately, I tried to use amarok with GStreamer, but it crashed while seeking tracks. I already sent a backtrace, and one of the devs told me to use mad plugin for gstreamer (I use ffmpeg), but I don\'t know how to set Gstreamer to do that. Help needed.

Uninstall ffmpeg.

I did, but now I can\'t play mp3 with gstreamer. I installed mad from here:
ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/
Is this correct?

try installing the gst-ffmpeg, then go into your gstreamer directory and remove the ffmpeg files manually - this worked for me

edit: make sure that the ./configure from gst-plugins says that the mad plugin will be compiled, if yes, it will be used automatically.

Post edited by: alanceil, at: 2005/08/07 16:47

Aha! Gst-plugins says:
configure: *** checking plugin: mad ***
configure: ***
checking for mad >= 0.15 id3tag >= 0.15... Package mad was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `mad.pc\'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package \'mad\' found
checking for mad_decoder_finish in -lmad... yes
checking for id3_tag_options in -lid3tag... yes
configure: ***

What could be wrong? what is PKG_CONFIG_PATH and how to set it. I installed mad normally, just ./configure, make, make install.

Edit: I can\'t find mad.pc.

Post edited by: kriko, at: 2005/08/07 21:04

Anyone? Should I install mad with aditional prefixes or ...?

According to gentoo\'s emerge, mad can be found at http://mad.sourceforge.net .
Mybe you got a \"wrong\" tarball?

No, I\'ve got the correct tarball, but still no luck.