Xine, amarok, kaffeine incompatibility

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Tue Jul 17 15:36:09 UTC 2007


On 7/16/07, Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There are third party repos for fedora that have the
> proprietary codecs for xine, amarok etc. They work
> quite well.

Obviously not...

> This is not a distro-specific issue. As pointed out in
> my original post last month I went through many
> different version combinations of xine and amarok.
>
> The problem is that amarok doesn't like the xine
> configuration file kaffeine creates, possibly the
> line:
>
> engine.performance.memcpy_method:sse
>
> I just wanted to tell that amarok freezes with the
> above line in xine configuration.
>
> Orcan

Amarok doesn't know anything about ~/.xine/xine-config, so your
pulling a John Nash in seeing a pattern between the two. It is
possible that Kaffeine is locking your soundcard or something though.

Ian



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