CD/DVD work [xfburn]

[Member roland]

I’m using 64-bit Berta Caceres 16.3 which I keep updated, I get the following message when initialising Xfburn :-

Failed to initialize gstreamer transcoder: An error occurred setting gstreamer up for transcoding
(falling back to basic implementation

However it appears to run well for the function I have used, to burn a bootable CD with an ISO file. Is this a problem and if so has anyone got a solution?

Also Xfburn appears to have no option to make a mirror-image copy of any CD or DVD. Is there such an application available, if so can anyone point me to it please?

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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you might need to install gstreamer1.0 packages. IIRC, antiX 16 ships with gstreamer0.10 packages.

[Member roland]

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root@hennebique:/home/roland/Desktop# apt-get install gstreamer1.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-base' for regex 'gstreamer1.0'
Note, selecting 'gstreamer1.0-tools' for regex 'gstreamer1.0'
Note, selecting 'gstreamer1.0-audiosource' for regex 'gstreamer1.0'
Note, selecting 'libgstreamer1.0-0' for regex 'gstreamer1.0'
Note, selecting 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-good' for regex 'gstreamer1.0'
Note, selecting 'gstreamer1.0-videosource' for regex 'gstreamer1.0'
Note, selecting 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-base' instead of 'gstreamer1.0-audiosource'
Note, selecting 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-base' instead of 'gstreamer1.0-videosource'
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base is already the newest version.
libgstreamer1.0-0 is already the newest version.
libgstreamer1.0-0 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I appear to be on the latest version. Anmy further suggestions ?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by rokytnji. Reason: Cleaning up mess of a thread

[Moderator caprea]

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It’s the gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
needed for xfburn.

[Member roland]

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root@hennebique:/home/roland# apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly'
root@hennebique:/home/roland# 

Package not found. Any further suggestions? It does not appear to prevent writing a boorable ISO although maybe it’s hiding something I may want to do later.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by rokytnji.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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can you post

inxi -r

output.

[Member roland]

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roland@hennebique:~/Desktop
$ su
Password: 
root@hennebique:/home/roland/Desktop# inxi -r
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/jessie jessie main nosystemd
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
  1: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
root@hennebique:/home/roland/Desktop# 

I ran a general dist-update last week.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by rokytnji.

[Moderator caprea]

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Sorry, for jessie try
apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

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Just an aside, (but if you have trouble running a GUI/graphical program), try starting it at the command line, this will often let you know why it isn’t starting, or what might be missing. 🙂

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

[Member roland]

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roland@hennebique:~/Desktop
$ xfburn
** Message: Using UDEV

** (xfburn:8340): WARNING **: A pipeline element could not be created

however the suggested install below, which failed on this pc, has worked on another pc which I thought was at the same state, 16.3 up to date.

roland@hennebique:~/Desktop
$ su
Password: 
root@hennebique:/home/roland/Desktop# apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-uglyReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly'
root@hennebique:/home/roland/Desktop#

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by rokytnji.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by rokytnji.

[Member ohh]

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You need to add jessie old stable to your repos to download the gstreamer plugins, after downloading the plugins then
I would uncheck that repo

Here is the link to the debian page:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

cheers,
ohh

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• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by ohh. Reason: info

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[Member roland]

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I’m not certain how to achieve this addition to the repos, can you advise please?

[Moderator caprea]

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You can’t
jessie = oldstable

Don’t know what’s going wrong on your system, your repo-list looks alrighty to me,
as long as you did an apt-get update and afterwards apt-get upgrade or an apt-get dist-upgrade.
Are there any errors during the update ?

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Well ok my bad,

You could try changing the repo highlighted below to match your Jessie update repo
by editing the line in your /etc/apt/sources.list as the page https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly/download does not list the
http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian mirror as a source for the ugly plugins but the mirror below is included in the source list.

http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian

roland@hennebique:~/Desktop
$ su
Password:
root@hennebique:/home/roland/Desktop# inxi -r
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/jessie jessie main nosystemd
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
1: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
root@hennebique:/home/roland/Desktop#

I am sure you are aware that you can do this change using the Control Centre —> Maintenance –> Manage APT Repositories

and if so maybe will benefit new users.

cheers,
ohh

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[Member roland]

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I looked at my 3 PCs in detail regarding this issue, here is what I found.

PC_1 ASUS 64-bit
Distributor ID:	antiX
Description:	antiX 16.2
Codename:	jessie
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http: //it.mxrepo.com/antix/jessie jessie main nosystemd
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
           2: deb http: //security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list 
           1: deb http: //linux.dropbox.com/debian/ jessie main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Xfburn initialises OK

PC_2 MSI 64-bit
Distributor ID:	antiX
Description:	antiX 16.2
Codename:	jessie
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http: //it.mxrepo.com/antix/jessie jessie main nosystemd
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
           2: deb http: //security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Xfburn warns with Failed to initialize gstreamer transcoder: An error occurred setting gstreamer up for transcoding
	(falling back to basic implementation)

PC_3 MSI 64-bit
Distributor ID:	antiX
Description:	antiX 16.1
Codename:	jessie
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http: //repo.antixlinux.com/jessie jessie main nosystemd
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
           2: deb http: //security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http: //dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           1: deb http: //deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
Xfburn warns with Failed to initialize gstreamer transcoder: An error occurred setting gstreamer up for transcoding
	(falling back to basic implementation)

All are kept updated and upgraded as suggested but I am aware of differences, evident in certain icons and texts.
It is evident that I am not always downloading the object code from the same source or from the same places.

I am very satisfied with 16.3 however maybe now is the time to look carefully at 17?

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