[packman] Arista not working in opensuse, plugin missing

[Swapnil Bhartiya]

On 04/03/2012 03:35 PM, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> On 2 April 2012 19:14, Swapnil Bhartiya<swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I am trying to install and use Arista Transcoder in openSUSE, but some
>> update recently broke it. I have filed bug report with Arista and openSUSE
>> and it seems the problem is with pacman not installing plugins/codecs.
>>
>> How to reproduce
>> 1. Install Arista in openSUSE 12.1
>> 2. Try to run and it throws error
>>
>> muktware at linux-fdhk:~>  arista-gtk
>> ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
>> arista.presets [433]: INFO Attempting to install elements: x264enc
>> ** Message: PackageKit: xid = 0
>> ** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: GStreamer element x264enc
>> ** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer0.10(element-x264enc)()(64bit)
>> ** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: Message did not receive a
>> reply (timeout by message bus)
>> arista.presets [442]: ERROR Unable to install required elements!
>> arista.presets [433]: INFO Attempting to install elements: x264enc
>> ** Message: PackageKit: xid = 0
>> ** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: GStreamer element x264enc
>> ** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer0.10(element-x264enc)()(64bit)
>> ** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: Message did not receive a
>> reply (timeout by message bus)
>> arista.presets [442]: ERROR Unable to install required elements!
>>
>> The error it throws is
>> Cannot add conversion to queue because of missing elements!
>>
>> I then tried to install plugins from openSUSE's repo
>> http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_formats/12.1
>>
>> and then
>> http://www.muktware.com/articles/3276/how-install-arista-transcoder-opensuse
>>
>> Now when I try to transcode a movie in Droidx (format for Android tablets)
>> it throws error:
>>
>> Conversion of The_Iron_Lady.mp4 to Generic Android Droid X failed! Reason:
>> Unable to construct pipeline! no property "profile" in element "faac0"
>>
>> Can you please help?
>
> I already reopened the openSUSE (next time, please, give a link)
> explaining why the problem is not in Packman.

Thanks. Will keep in mind.
>
> And I don't think the "faac0" is Packman fault neither. I explained it
> in the arista bug report.

Thanks. I am monitoring both the bugs and will provide any info if needed.

Swapnil