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[LGLudd]

I have been attempting to follow Nicks python tutorials in the magazine and thought I would have have gone off at a bit of a tangent from the latest one which amongst other things shows you how to play music files using gst.

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to attempt to write a small app to convert music files to mp3 format for my wife so she can load my ogg files onto her ipod.

Unfortunately I have fallen at pretty much the first hurdle in that I cannot get my conversion process to work.

from the command line I can run:

[LGLudd]

ok, after much heartache I have fixed this (with help from google and a shove in the right direction from the #python irc channel)

The previous comment I found about the warning not being the issue was correct

There were two problems with the code above.

Firstly the code was not actually converting the music file as (I think) it was not ready to join the elements together correctly.

This was remedied by creating a demux element (I don't know why this is required for an audio only file) and monitoring it for the pad-added signal at which point it would be linked to the decoder element.
The elements are linked in two stages to account for this.

The other issue was that the MainLoop was never being terminated and so the code was never completing cleanly.

This was fixed by creating a bus object for the converter pipeline object and monitoring the messages for the MESSAGE_EOS signal and then terminating the MainLoop from there.

I switched to using gtk instead of gobject in an attempt to get rid of the deprecated message (this did not work) and because the example code I found on the pygst tutorial

Anyway, just in case anyone is interested the code is now as follows:

[evilnick]

nice work. Sorry I have not been hanging around in the forums so much or I could have helped you out - but it looks like you did an excellent job on your own!