yauap and xine engine problems: no sound from either

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Nix wrote:
> But I'd *really* like to use the yauap backend: all the niftiness and
> customizability (and instability) of gstreamer in a whole new tiny
> package :) alas, with stable amarok 1.4 from SVN r640148 running atop
> dbus 1.0.2, it simply claims that oggs are `not playable', and
> attempting to add an MP3 to the playlist hangs forever; a variety of
> strange messages are getting emitted in the process:
>
> ** ERROR **: file dbus-gproxy.c: line 2167
> (dbus_g_proxy_begin_call_internal): assertion failed: (pending != NULL)
> aborting...
> Very strange! got a DCOPReplyWait opcode, but we were not waiting for a
> reply! Very strange! got a DCOPReplyDelayed opcode, but we were not waiting
> for a reply!

Are you using SVN Amarok from the stable branch?  Amarok 1.4 in the stable 
branch doesn't use dbus, at all, period (unless yauap does, which I don't 
know about).  If you're using r640148 trunk, you're using the 2.0 development 
branch which is almost guaranteed not to work  :-)

--Jeff