Missing Gstreamer plugin for m4a

General
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Hi. I’m trying to play a podcast in m4a format and I’m getting this error.

2017-01-25 17:09:45,653 WARNING [673:MainThread] mopidy.audio.actor: Could not find a MPEG-4 AAC decoder to handle media.
2017-01-25 17:09:45,657 WARNING [673:MainThread] mopidy.audio.gst: GStreamer warning: gst-stream-error-quark: No decoder available for type 'audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, framed=(boolean)true, stream-format=(string)raw, level=(string)2, base-profile=(string)lc, profile=(string)lc, codec_data=(buffer)1290, rate=(int)32000, channels=(int)2'. (6)
2017-01-25 17:09:45,661 ERROR [673:MainThread] mopidy.audio.gst: GStreamer error: gst-core-error-quark: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in. (12)

Any idea which plugin I need to install?

Thanks.

Jonathan

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Do you have gstreamer1.0-plugins-{good,bad,ugly} ?

Plugin Details:
  Name                     faad
  Description              Free AAC Decoder (FAAD)
  Filename                 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfaad.so
  Version                  1.8.2
  License                  GPL
  Source module            gst-plugins-bad
  Source release date      2016-06-09
  Binary package           GStreamer Bad Plugins (Ubuntu)
  Origin URL               https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad1.0
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apt list --installed lists

gstreamer1.0-alsa/stable,now 1.4.4-2 armhf [installed,automatic]
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base/stable,now 1.4.4-2 armhf [installed,automatic]
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good/stable,now 1.4.4-2+deb8u2 armhf [installed]
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly/stable,now 1.4.4-2 armhf [installed,automatic]
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio/stable,now 1.4.4-2+deb8u2 armhf [installed,automatic]
gstreamer1.0-tools/stable,now 1.4.4-2 armhf [installed,automatic]
gstreamer1.0-x/stable,now 1.4.4-2 armhf [installed,automatic]

I just tried installing good, which is why it doesn’t say “automatic”, presumably.

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So, no, you don’t. Installing gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad should be the solution.

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apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

Sorted. Thanks. :slight_smile:

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Hello all,

Iam running mopidy on my osmc installation. I have installed all gstreamer plugins but still I get the message “Gstreamer fehlt ein Plugin” bei m4a files.

What can I do?

THX,
Stefan

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What’s the actual error message? Is it the same as I posted?

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Oh shit,

now I realized that mopidy 0.19 was installed however. After adding the correct repository now everthing works fine with mopidy 2.1.0