How to stop "... requires an additional plugin" messages

BadMofo666 · #1 14th October 2009, 09:41 PM

Everytime I open Rhythmbox, I get "Music Player requires an additional plugin" messages. I hit the search button, it finds the plugin, then when I hit install, it says, "all packages are already installed."

How do I stop these messages?

Is this a known bug?

I'm using Fedora 11 x86_64, fully updated,

BadMofo666 · #2 16th October 2009, 07:34 PM

Am I the only one with this problem?

adrianx · #3 16th October 2009, 07:39 PM

I recommend autoten. It will help you to install additional codecs. You will probably want to select "DVD codecs", "Most codecs" and "MP3 codecs" to begin with.

***glennzo*** · #4 16th October 2009, 08:06 PM

He's not the only one with the problem. I've seen it lately with Rhythmbox also, not to mention there seems to be no more icon in the top panel when the program is minimized. Anyhow, Rhythmbox keeps prompting me to install "codecs" for text/html. This happens as I open Rhythmbox and it reads in the music database. Not the first time it is run when one adds the music folder, but from then on every time you open the program. I never bothered to find out why this is happening. Can't be bothered frankly, but it's a pain to have to keep hitting cancel until it stops asking. Annoying to say the least.

adrianx · #5 16th October 2009, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by glennzo

He's not the only one with the problem. I've seen it lately with Rhythmbox also, not to mention there seems to be no more icon in the top panel when the program is minimized. Anyhow, Rhythmbox keeps prompting me to install "codecs" for text/html. This happens as I open Rhythmbox and it reads in the music database. Not the first time it is run when one adds the music folder, but from then on every time you open the program. I never bothered to find out why this is happening. Can't be bothered frankly, but it's a pain to have to keep hitting cancel until it stops asking. Annoying to say the least.

Sorry, I wasn't aware of that, I just assumed that it was a codec problem. To be honest, I haven't used Rhythmbox in ages.

Dies · #6 16th October 2009, 08:15 PM

Just remove the helper

PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin

Sorry, not on Fedora right now so I don't know if it goes quietly or wants to take half the system with it, but there's always --nodeps. ;-)

BadMofo666 · #7 16th October 2009, 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dies

Just remove the helper

PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin

Sorry, not on Fedora right now so I don't know if it goes quietly or wants to take half the system with it, but there's always --nodeps. ;-)

Thanks, that worked well. Didn't have any dependency issues either.

Oh, and to get the icon to stay up in the panel you have to enable the "status icon" plugin and configure it.

***glennzo*** · #8 17th October 2009, 12:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adrianx

Sorry, I wasn't aware of that, I just assumed that it was a codec problem. To be honest, I haven't used Rhythmbox in ages.

No need to apologize, assuming it is directed my way. Just thought I add that I'm seeing some issues lately in what I assume is a newer version of Rhythmbox that weren't there before.

Guy Jr · #9 17th October 2009, 11:59 AM

I was getting the Requires additional plugin ... Missing ID3 Demuxer error whenever I started up Rhythmbox. Turns out I had two folders with the exact same music files. When I deleted the redundant folder the error went away. Not sure why having two copies of the same music file (i.e two files with the same ID3 tag) in the Rhythmbox music library would cause a missing ID3 Demuxer plugin error though.