no sounds from pidgin[SOLVED]

[tOaDeR]

I am not able to get any sounds to work in pidgin. sound seems to work in other programs, but not pidgin. could anyone tell me why that is?

[raijinsetsu]

Re: no sounds from pidgin

In Pidgin's preferences, see what it's using for a sound engine.

[tOaDeR]

Re: no sounds from pidgin

its on Automatic, but i've tried all of them except command

[tOaDeR]

Re: no sounds from pidgin

found this in pidgin's description in Synaptic:

Some extra packages are recommended to use the core functionality present
in most pidgin installations:
 * gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  - Sound support.

i did that (it also installs any dependencies required) and now sound works perfectly.

[clickwir]

Re: no sounds from pidgin

IMO, there should be a bug report that should make pidgin depend on those packages. OR.... OR... they should just change the default sound method to COMMAND and then enter "aplay %s".

Just my opinion of course. But I think Pidgin should have sound out of the box, and it hasn't for a long time now.

[mchuskie]

Re: no sounds from pidgin

If I remember correctly, the default behaviour of apt-get is changing in Hardy to automatically install packages marked as "recommended", which in this case would include both those gstreamer ones.

[DrKosy]

Re: [SOLVED] no sounds from pidgin

I just had the same problem with the hardy version. So I had no sound in the pidgin enviroment since the gstream-plugin wasn't installed.
So maybe gstreams belongs to a repository which is not supported by default (such as multiverse or medibuntu) and thus not installed automaticly.

P.S: Could someone add a [SOLVED] to the topic? That would be nice, cause it than is more easy to find this topic from the search-results