rhythmbox segfault / sound quality problems in fc4t3...

[Chris McDonough]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:20 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > FYI... at least one class of segfaults were attributable to the fact
> > that I was using an older version of gstreamer-plugins-mp3 (0.8.5) from
> > livna.
> > 
> > Installing
> > ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpm.livna.org/fedora/3.91/i386/RPMS.testing/gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.3.91.i386.rpm
> > 
> > and rerunning gst-register (and restarting RB) prevents RB from
> > segfaulting when attempting to play some mp3 songs.
> > 
> > Very good.
> 
> It should not be necessary to run gst-register, since the package does
> it in its post-install scriptlet. For a long time.

Sorry, should have been more precise.  My "local" gstreamer registry (
/home/chrism/.gstreamer-0.8/registry-i386.xml) got created at some point
and had stale info, and running gst-register as 'chrism' fixed that.

- C