[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] gstreamer spider

[J. K. <rub...@an...>]

hello all,

  i use gstreamer for an audio player i've written, though i must
confess i don't fully understand it - and the documentation i can find
online is not always terribly helpful.
  for some reason i don't seem to have the "spider" plugin...  i'm
running ubuntu 10.4, and have installed all of the plugin packages
(base, good, bad, and ugly,) through the package manager, but
gst-inspect shows no spider plugin.
  at the moment i'm using the "mad" plugin, which only allows for mp3
playback.  when i try to use spider as a decoder, like this:

decoder = Gst::ElementFactory.make("spider", "foo")

  i get an error "...:in `add': Gst::Element expected"

  any ideas how i can install the spider plugin?

  as a side question...   anyone know of other sound libraries for ruby
that are as functional as gstreamer, but perhaps better documented?

  thanks -

  jk

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