It seems that if you are using gstreamer 10.0 or greater and wish to use the faad plugin (gst-plugins-faad) you must install gst-plugins-bad before or after the install of gst-plugins-faad. A fix for this would be to make gst-plugins-faad to depend on gst-plugins-bad. This has not been confirmed but is the only way I can get mpeg4 audio files to play with gstreamer 10.
This is incorrect. You only need gst-plugins-bad for the quicktime demuxer, and the fact that you need the quicktime demuxer to play some aac files as they are in a quicktime/mpeg4 container does not make gst-plugins-bad a dep of gst-plugins-faad Apps that have the aac use flag should also dep on gst-plugins-bad, so really this bug is against rhythmbox and other players...maybe you could tell me the other audio players that have this issue.
...maybe you could tell me the > other audio players that have this issue. > Totem as well, can't really think of anything else.
(In reply to comment #2) > ...maybe you could tell me the > > other audio players that have this issue. > > > > Totem as well, can't really think of anything else. > Well actually totem does not have an acc flag there should be a flag on gst-plugins-faad for mp4. This way all gstremaer apps will get this. And you could also remove the acc tag from Rhythmbox.
banshee does.
Same here for quodlibet: It did not play my AAC files though the use-flag was set. After finding this bug and emerging gst-plugins-bad it works.
This isn't really a bug and throwing useflags at it won't help. Gentoo policy states [1] that ebuilds should use USE flags for _build_time_ dependencies only. Gstreamer has a plugin architecture that will let you add new formats without rebuilding rhythmbox/banshee/whatever, so new USE flags are out. As for adding a dep, there are now over 20 plugins in Gentoo and adding them in all our ebuilds will be a hell to maintain in the long run. All in all, it's up to you to install whatever you see fit for playing your favorite tunes and movies :) Thanks for your understanding [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap2_sect5
