Amarok and Xine can't play MP3, but VLC and MPlayer can

[Adam Porter]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Amara Emerson <amara01emerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the explanation.  :)  It's too bad there isn't some kind of
>  >  simple engine that just uses existing libs to play files.  Or maybe I
>  >  don't know what I'm talking about.  It just seems strange that Amarok
>  >  has to use Xine for everything when there are other ways to play audio
>  >  files.
>  That's basically what phonon does. Amarok does have other engines
>  available for it, I've tried the gstreamer engine in the past though
>  I've always used xine.

Well, in Amarok2 and KDE4, Phonon uses Xine.  And the only Amarok1
engine package that is packaged for Debian or Ubuntu is the Xine
engine.  Is the GStreamer engine still...supported?