Check gstreamer play object

What are you trying to play? And from where?

Downloaded a .wmv file. Firefox asked what to play the download with and gave me a choice of MOVIE PLAYER after which I get the TOTEM....... error message above.

Also Banshee won't play MP3 files imported from my windows folder. Just stays idle when play is selected.

Did you run:

sudo apt-get -y install ubuntu-restricted-extras

May help

Wasn't able to get TERMINAL to open up. When I click on the TERMINAL is says starting with a little icon spinning and then it quits. TERMINAL used to work as I used it for my last problems on sound.

press CTRL+ALT+F1 and run the command there instead

CTRL-ALT-F1 did open a full screen terminal. Had a hard time figuring how to sign on but finally got to enter the "sudo apt-get" command. It done lots of stuff and then the package configuration at the screen titled "configuring ttf-mscore-fonts-installer. Showed a full screen of EULA stuff and I scrolled down to the bottom. There wasn't any clue of how to accept the EULA. I tried enter key and all the function keys and when I pressed F12 it said I declined the EULA and did not complete the installation.

Also the only way I can get out of the full screen terminal is to press the off button and shutdown, and then power back on.

Use TAB and ENTER to accept

Was able to use the regular TERMINAL window from the pulldown menu.
The sudo apt-get command said ubuntu-restricted-areas is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, and 7 not upgraded.

Tried the WMV download and it actually went to the download screen but when the player started, got the same TOTEM error as before.

ok run:

sudo apt-get -y upgrade

to get the 7 upgrades.

What is the output of:

dpkg -l | grep stream

Thanks

Here is the results of the display after the sudo apt-get -y upgrade:
dick@dick-GateWay-M210-and-3500-Series:~$ dpkg -l | grep stream
ii bluez-gstreamer 4.91-0ubuntu1 Bluetooth GStreamer support
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.32-1ubuntu5 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.11-4 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 0.10.15.debian-1 Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer plugin
ii gstreamer0.10-gnonlin 0.10.17-1 non-linear editing module for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-nice 0.1.0-2ubuntu1 ICE library (GStreamer plugin)
ii gstreamer0.10-pitfdll 0.9.1.1+cvs20080215-1ubuntu2 GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary codecs
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.21-1ubuntu11 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse 0.10.21-1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set (Multiverse Variant)
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.32-1ubuntu5 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.32-1ubuntu5 GStreamer helper programs from the "base" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.28-0ubuntu7 GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.17-1ubuntu2 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set (Multiverse Variant)
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.28-0ubuntu7 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.32-3ubuntu3 Tools for use with GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.32-1ubuntu5 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-14ubuntu2 library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams
ii libdca0 0.0.5-3 decoding library for DTS Coherent Acoustics streams
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.32-1ubuntu5 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.32-3ubuntu3 Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii libmms0 0.6.2-1 MMS stream protocol library - shared library
ii libogg0 1.2.0~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library
ii librtmp0 2.3-2 toolkit for RTMP streams (shared library)
ii libschroedinger-1.0-0 1.0.10-2 library for encoding/decoding of Dirac video streams
ii libshout3 2.2.2-5ubuntu1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming library
ii libstreamanalyzer0 0.7.2-1ubuntu3 streamanalyzer library for Strigi Desktop Search
ii libstreams0 0.7.2-1ubuntu3 streams library for for Strigi Desktop Search
ii libvlc5 1.1.9-1ubuntu1 multimedia player and streamer library
ii phonon-backend-gstreamer 4:4.7.0really4.5.0-0ubuntu2 Phonon GStreamer 0.10.x backend
ii sed 4.2.1-8 The GNU sed stream editor
ii vlc 1.1.9-1ubuntu1 multimedia player and streamer
ii vlc-nox 1.1.9-1ubuntu1 multimedia player and streamer (without X support)
dick@dick-GateWay-M210-and-3500-Series:~$ ^C
dick@dick-GateWay-M210-and-3500-Series:~$

Restarted firefox and retried the .wmv download and still get the same TOTEM error.

ok you have good bad and ugly. Not sure what else to advise, maybe others can

HELP! Thanks for help to this point but still cannot play .wmv files in firefox and cannot play mp3 in Bahshee.

Anyone with any ideas?????

Yes - still having the same problem with TOTEM.Note that I installed google chrome using the package manager and it also gets the same TOTEM error as firefox.

--- On Sun, 5/29/11, Dick <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Dick <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #159424]: Check gstreamer play object
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 2:05 AM

Your question #159424 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/159424

    Status: Answered => Open

You are still having a problem:
HELP!  Thanks for help to this point but still cannot play .wmv files in
firefox and cannot play mp3 in Bahshee.

Anyone with any ideas?????

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Get the same TOTEM/GSTREAM error panel using any of the included video and audio players on 11.04 except
 VLC works on everything.

Banshee just hangs when trying to play a mp3.
Movie player gets Totem could not startup
                                     Failed to create a GStreamer play object. Please check your GStreamer installation.
Rhythmbox music player gets Playback Error
                                                         Failed to create playbin2 element; check your GStreamer installation

Hope this helps someone to fix this problem.

Many Thanks ......

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Still have the same problems with GSTREAMER.

I added additional information after item #12 help person gave up on problem.

Still not working in all video/movie applications except VLC and SMPLAYER.

I tried installing all references to GSTREAMER in package manager with no change in all video/movie players mentioned in item #15 above.

Still have the same problems with GSTREAMER.

I added additional information after item #12 help person gave up on problem.

Still not working in all video/movie applications except VLC and SMPLAYER.

I tried installing all references to GSTREAMER in package manager with no change in all video/movie players mentioned in item #15 above.

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

Note that the error is in TOTEM and GSTREAMER - not just firefox.

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

Deleting my ~/.gstreamer-0.10 folder fixed this for me.

Found the fix in Bug #770158, Comment #3:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/770158/comments/3

what is the command for: ~/.gstreamer-0.10 in treminal mode??

I mean terminal mode.

Deleting ~/.gstreamer-0.10 works for me too. I'm using Ubuntu 12.10.

Deleting the above folder also fixed the problem for me. The folder gets re-created. Movie Player now works.

I have had to re-install 11.04 because of other problems and it fixed the problem.

I'll close this problem.

Natty is EOL so you will get zero updates and zero support anywhere.

That's OK.  At least it works.   Had probelms with 11.10, 12.04, 12.10 so I'm staying with 11.04.

--- On Sat, 11/17/12, actionparsnip <email address hidden> wrote:

From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #159424]: Check gstreamer play object
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012, 5:16 PM

Your question #159424 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/159424

actionparsnip posted a new comment:
Natty is EOL so you will get zero updates and zero support anywhere.

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