Why I can't use Amarok

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Just to be precise: your complaints are about Phonon and its backends,
so please address this to the phonon developpers. The Amarok-devel@
list is not the correct place for that.


Regards, Myriam

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 15:34, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> 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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