I upgraded to 14.04 LTS, and was switched back to Parole which does not work. I had previously uninstalled it and switched to VLC which pretty well always works with anything.
I have tried the following so far to get rid of this error: parole --xv false no affect (not this bug there is a decent message that indicates this as a fix) sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricted-extras no affect sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base already installed no affect sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio not installed still no affect I am trying to play a .mp4 Trying installing totem The following extra packages will be installed: gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1.2-totem-1.0 gir1.2-totem-plparser-1.0 libgmime-2.6-0 libpeas-1.0-0 libpeas-common libtotem-plparser18 libtotem0 libzeitgeist-2.0-0 python-zeitgeist totem-common totem-plugins zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub Suggested packages: totem-mozilla gromit The following NEW packages will be installed gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1.2-totem-1.0 gir1.2-totem-plparser-1.0 libgmime-2.6-0 libpeas-1.0-0 libpeas-common libtotem-plparser18 libtotem0 libzeitgeist-2.0-0 python-zeitgeist totem totem-common totem-plugins zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub Parole still does not work Plays on totem Tried closing and reopening Parole, so one of the above steps fixed it. removed totem The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1.2-totem-1.0 gir1.2-totem-plparser-1.0 libgmime-2.6-0 libpeas-1.0-0 libpeas-common libtotem-plparser18 libtotem0 libzeitgeist-2.0-0 python-zeitgeist totem-common zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub parole still works sudo apt-get remove gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio parole still works - but no sound put back gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio sudo apt-get remove gstreamer1.0-plugins-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED gnome-control-center gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7 Got a different error GStreamer Error Unable to load "playbin" plugin, check your GStreamer installation. Parole Media Player cannot start. Put gstreamer1.0-plugins-base back Got unable to load "autoaudiosink" sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad- faad repeat of error Got unable to load "autoaudiosink" installed gstreamer1.0-plugins-good libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7 WORKING - again Not able to recreate the "Gstreamer backend error, could not initialise supporting library" (A really vague horrible error message - sums up Parole for me no idea why it is the default) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278089 Title: Parole reports "Gstreamer backend error, could not initialise supporting library" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/parole/+bug/1278089/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
