Bug#498573: libqt4-dev: Please, enable Phonon support
On Sunday 26 October 2008 10:01:38 am Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2008 16:01:47 Felix Homann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > thank you Sune for your reply. I'm very sorry I didn't answer
> > earlier.
> >
> > I've tried again building the musicplayer example from the Qt4
> > examples. It builds but it doesn't work. I'm getting error messages
> > of this kind:
> >
> > Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject(no
> > objectName) to Phonon::AudioOutput(no objectName).
> > WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon
> > backend plugin could not be loaded
> >
> > Unfortunately, the example isn't build in qt4-demos either.
> >
> > What's wrong?
>
> which phonon backends do you have installed ?
>
> /Sune
About the phonon backend error, see the discussion here:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11070
Sune, I don't know if you'd consider this a problem with the Qt or
phonon packages, but it seems that by default Qt applications look for
the phonon plugins under /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/. However, Debian
installs them under /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/.
startkde takes care of that by setting the QT_PLUGIN_PATH environment
var. Something in there also causes ~/.config/Trolltech.conf to update
the "4.4\libraryPath" entry. Unfortunately, there's two problems with
this:
1. If a person hasn't run a KDE4 session at least once, Qt doesn't know
where to find phonon's plugins.
2. For some reason the "4.4\libraryPath" entry is getting flooded with
repetitions. A new pair appears each time a KDE4 session starts.
John Stamp
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