Should be depend on tons of media-plugins/gst-plugins-* I am sure in media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad and media-plugins/gst-plugins-soup. According to author homepage, high chance of media-plugins/gst-plugins-good, media-plugins/gst-plugins-bad, media-plugins/gst-plugins-ugly and probably more. Maybe media-video/totem with USE="youtube" is also issued. Reproducible: Always
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What?? media-sound/phonon[gstreamer] is enough and pulls all the required dependences Furthermore, I am able to view youtube videos and I don't have totem installed.
(In reply to comment #2) > media-sound/phonon[gstreamer] is enough and pulls all the required dependences No it doesn't. In fact media-sound/phonon[gstreamer] only depends on gstreamer and gst-plugins-base. This does not install any of the split-off plugins that are offering most of the functionality. What phonon needs is a dependency on media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta, which has useflags to pull in those plugins. The most common ones are enabled by default in the desktop profile. Though ffmpeg may be an important one which is not enabled by default. Even so, media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta offers no way to pull in all plugins. For example soup and faad are not mentioned. This is really a shortcoming of the meta ebuild, but the maintainer does not see it that way, see for example bug 288349. But that really is another matter. Let's just say the situation is far from optimal.
The thing is that I only have gst-plugin-base and minitube works fine
(In reply to comment #4) > The thing is that I only have gst-plugin-base and minitube works fine You really only have gst-plugins-base and none of the other gst-plugins?
First I missed the ebuild verion, because all of them are affected. I corrected it. If I unmerge media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad or unmerge media-plugins/gst-plugins-soup I can't play any youtube videos. When I emerge them again, minitube works fine. > Furthermore, I am able to view youtube videos and I don't have totem installed. Sure. But totem also use gstreamer for playing youtube videos. So probably totem with "youtube" useflag needs at least the same gstreamer plugins as minitube. It can be another bug in totem ebuild. (media-video/totem-2.28.5) gst-plugins-soup is added, but gst-plugins-faad isn't. My installed plugins: gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.12 gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.25 gst-plugins-esd-0.10.17 gst-plugins-faad-0.10.14 gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.7 gst-plugins-gio-0.10.24 gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.12 gst-plugins-pango-0.10.24 gst-plugins-soup-0.10.17 gst-plugins-x-0.10.24
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > The thing is that I only have gst-plugin-base and minitube works fine > > You really only have gst-plugins-base and none of the other gst-plugins? > No, I'm sorry I do have installed gst-plugins-ffmpeg and -mad
I guess gst-plugins-ffmpeg is the one plugin that is missing. Since I only have -ffmpeg and -mad installed I could safely assume that ffmpeg is the needed one for minitube
For me, minitube didn't work at all until i installed gst-plugins-soup. After doing so, it explicitly said that i need "MPEG-4 AAC codec" (when i tried to play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoX4rLMLyPk&feature=youtube_gdata ). However, it managed to play _some_ of videos. After installing gst-plugins-faac and gst-plugins-faad, it worked correctly.
Should be ok now. Thanks for reporting
