Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash
Christopher Judd writes:
> On Tuesday 17 January 2012 12:03:59 Alberto Luaces wrote:
>> Alberto Luaces writes:
>> > Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues
>> >> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play
>> >> any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its
>> >> related).
>> >
>> > Since the last amarok update, I also have lost its sound output. Also
>> > using the xine plugin, but I don't have pulseaudio installed. It
>> > sometimes crahes on exit, but not always.
>>
>> It seems xine is the problem. Installing phonon-backend-gstreamer makes
>> sound work again in amarok.
>
> Or phonon-backend-vlc.
Exactly. In addition, I have found that my problem lies only in
phonon-backend-xine, since the xine player works correctly. OP mentions
some KDE programs that should be using phonon-backend-xine, but also
«all Xine players».
Grześ, did you try xine-ui?
--
Alberto
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