MIDI support in OpenSUSE 11.0 w/ Gstreamer
July 13th, 2008 by Blake
Before I get started, let me just say this was (to my knowledge) the easiest way to get MIDI support working. It’s not really the recommended way of doing things, but it works non-the-less. I used a couple packages from the Fedora Core 9 repositories.
- Download the “libtimidity” and “gstreamer-plugins-bad” packages.
- Install the libtimidity package as-is, using the “–nodeps” argument if needed.
- Extract the “libgsttimidity.so” file from the gstreamer-plugins-bad package. This can be done using File Roller, or a similar archive program.
- Copy “libgsttimidity.so” to “/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/”
- Enjoy. You can now play MIDI files with Gstreamer.
One note though, as of this guide, Banshee does not seem to want to play MIDIs yet. However, Totem (a.k.a. Movie Player) works fine.
Packages I used:
Note: The links to the packages may change at any time. If that happens, just go out and find another package. As long as the same steps is followed, there is a good chance everything will still work.
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