Why I can't use Amarok

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Mathias,

thanks for your message.

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:33:51 +0200
Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net> wrote:

> On 08/28/2011 09:58 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was a happy user of Amarok 1.4.x, but since Amarok 2.x, I've been getting
> > a lot of compatibility problems with it, which made it use painful. As a
> > result, I've been mostly using the VLC player recently, which isn't
> > perfect, but is less quirky.
> >
> > What I need from Amarok is to have a Phonon backend that will:
> >
> > 1. Play all files I throw at it
> > - .mp3, .ogg, .flv, .mp4, .mod/.s3m/.xm/.it, .avi, etc. Phonon-gstreamer is
> >    unable to play .mp4 files due to this bug -
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267319 - and
> > Phonon-VLC was much more quirky in this respect last time I tried.
> 
> The tracker file types .mod/.s3m/.xm/.it are actually supported by VLC and
> thus by Phonon-VLC. The Phonon-VLC developers just didn't know and so they
> did not include them in the list of supported files, which caused Amarok to
> refuse to play them. I wrote a bugreport and so they where simply added.
> However, I forgot .mod in the bugreport, so I just wrote a new one just
> for .mod: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280993
> 
> So the next Phonon-VLC version will support tracker files.

Nice, thanks for the report. In addition to ".mod" files, it seems that ".flv"
files are not supported by Amarok when using the Phonon-VLC backend.

> 
> If you are still using KDE 4.6 you can't use a recent Phonon-VLC (API
> changes). But because the fix for these file formats is trivial I patched the
> last Phonon-VLC version compatible with KDE 4.6:
> https://github.com/panzi/phonon-vlc/tree/module_files_for_kde_4.6
> 

Thanks! But I am using KDE-4.7.x.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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