Hey guys for a couple of days i can´t play a lot of my music anymore.
I get the message: windows media audio 8 decoder is missing.
i ave installed all additional gstreamer codecs.
Thanks for any help and have a nice day.
Hello PatRick08
What media player are you using?
Open a terminal
Ctrl + Alt + T
and enter
inxi -S
Please post the output.
Hi v3xx,
I use rythmbox.
The output is the following:
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Thanks so far.
That is the output of “inxi -s”. Please post the output of “inxi -S”>
Oh, excuse me.
Then this is hopefully the right one:
System: Host: patrick-Aspire-V5-571G Kernel: 4.4.0-62-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: MATE 1.16.1
Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
No problem
I first thought that you may be running an outdated version, but you have a fully updated install with the 1.16 desktop.
So it looks like you have been hit with this bug.
Ok.
Since this is a known problem I assume there is a good change it will be solve by a future update.
Would you agree with me?
Yes, I’d assume this will be fixed in a future update.
Thanks for your help.
It is really a great community here.
FYI, the fix was released.
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Great, thanks a lot for this information.
I updated my software, but unfortunately it doesn't work.
Now i get this message when i try to play a song.
Maybe it takes some days to be fixed with the regular updates?
What happens when you click the Install button?
The window disappears.
But when i tr to play the song after this the same message pops up again.
What happens when you run “sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-libav:i386” from a terminal?
It couldn’t be installed because of dependences on libavfilter-ffmpeg5:i386 (>= 7:2.4) and
libavformat-ffmpeg56:i386 (>= 7:2.4), which should not be installed like the error message says.
Thanks for your help.
I got an gstreamer update today via the regular updates.
Now I an listen to all my music again.
Thanks for your help and tips.