[packman] Arista not working in opensuse, plugin missing

[Cristian Morales Vega]

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.

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