Banshee Media Player 1.0 and Gstreamer resource error

I installed the new Banshee 1.0 on my laptop today.

The one new feature I was interested was the video integration that allows you to import your movies into the Video Library just like you do with your music and allows you to watch your movies inside Banshee.

This new feature makes Banshee a true media player not just a music player like Rhythmbox for example. The only reason actually that I used Rhythmbox over Banshee was because I have just always used Rhythmbox since switching to Ubuntu.

After installing Banshee 1.0 from the Banshee developers PPA I started the media player and begun importing my media files.

At first my music videos played nicely but then I must have done something and no video would play. I got a error in the terminal saying:

[Error 14:41:42.036] GStreamer resource error: NotFound
[Error 14:41:45.423] GStreamer resource error: NotFound
[Error 14:41:45.942] GStreamer resource error: NotFound
…

I knew there was nothing wrong with video files because they opened just fine with Totem. I tried almost every thing but no video playback. The I opened Banshee as root and everything worked as before.

Suspecting that this had something to do with my Banshee configuration files I created a new user named koos. Banshee video work as expected with this user.

Being the lazy person I am I logged back in as myself and deleted the ~/.config/banshee-1/ folder and then copied the banshee-1 folder from my koos user I created (/home/koos/.config/banshee-1) that solved the problem and I was back to watching videos and listening to music from one program. I still don’t know what caused the problem in the first place.

I don’t think I will go back to Rrythmbox anytime soon since I only listen to music and now watch movies from my media player and don’t use any other features where Rhythmbox might or might not have the edge. Now I only have to learn the new keyboard shortcuts and I am set.

Below is 2 screen shots of Banshee 1.0 in action.

Insert Date Time in NetBeans – Module

I was working in NetBeans and wanted to insert the current date time in the source file I was working on.

I could not find any menu item to this and searching the web didn’t provide any useful information. There was pages describing how to insert the date time in templates but I wanted to do this in my source file.

After giving up on my search I created a module that will insert the current date time at the cursor in NetBeans. The module is by no means perfect and only allows for one date time format but it works for me.

Maybe the module can be useful to somebody else.

Read more and DOWNLOAD here…