Previously on Gnome 2.4xx hovering the mouse over a audio file such as an mp3 or wav file causes it to play/preview as long as the cursor is over the icon. This no longer happens (I formatted reinstalled gentoo). I'm on the 2.6.2 kernle with gnome-2.4.1 Audio works fine in general... I can listen to waves, mp3s in XMMS, watch DVD and hear audio, listen to my radio turner etc.. I can do all this at the same time as well and hear them all at the same time so it can't be mixing related. I have ESD turned on. I have enabled sound preview in file managment setting. The preview filesize is less that the maximum allowed. If this has anything to do with gstreamer .64 then it may be broken?? Because I cannot double click on a wav file to open gnome-sound-record... nothing happens even tho its the default application. gnome-sound-record fails to play Wav files when I run the application myself. it hardlocks gnome-sound-recorder once I press play. Mp3's sorta play when I open them via gnome-sound-recorder but tends ot crash on exit. I found this out when investigating the preview problem. I have unmerged gstreamer and remerged with no optimisations, no cflags at all. no help there. Finally...I started gnome as root (I know very bad thing to do). This problem exisits as a root user as well, (ESD is started). Images preview fine. Mixer levels are set correctly Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hover mouse over a mp3/wave file 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing. Expected Results: music/audio to play as long as mouse is hovered over given audio file emerge info after commenting out cflags in /etc/make.conf and compile gstreamer. Normal flags are... CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" Portage 2.0.50 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
you have to build nautilus with 'gstreamer' in USE.
Thanks that appears to have done the trick. Interesting the first time I installed gnome on gentoo (in december 03) the preview worked, ie nautilus must have been compiled with gstreamer support. However after a brand new install it wasn't! Its fixed now, Bug closed, resolved as invalid
well actually the unpatched gstreamer nautilus works a bit different, but supports fewer soundformats. It should work, but this is a faster and better solution.
