Using mplayer codecs to play aiff files

[linucks42 at gmail.com]

Hi Elko,

Thanks for the tip. I tried installing the package you suggested, but it
failed due to a clash in the package manager due to - I think - my having
both kde 3.5 and 4.1 on my machine.

To make things simpler 'd like to remove kde 3.5 completely and use the
version of amarok from Kubuntu for kde 4.1. Unfortunately, my settings for
the old amarok live in .kde/share/apps/amarok and the naiive approach of
just copying this folder over to .kde4/share/apps/amarok doesn't work (the
error messages seem to indicate that the database schema has changed).

Is there an easy way to copy the settings from the kde 3.5 amarok to the kde
4..1 one?

Thanks,

Jens

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:39 AM, E. Berkenpies <fedora at berkenpies.nl>wrote:

>
> Please make sure you also have phonon-xine installed.
>
> ---
> Eelko Berkenpies
> http://www.berkenpies.nl/
>
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:53:15 +0100, linucks42 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi Seb,
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote
> >>
> >>
> >> > I'm currently struggling to get Amarok to recognise AIFF files. If I
> >> > try
> >> and
> >> > play one with Amarok I get the message:
> >> >
> >> > "No suitable demux plugin. This often means that the file format is
> not
> >> > supported."
> >> >
> >> > However, I can play the .aiff files fine in mplayer. Is there any way
> >> > to
> >> get
> >> > Amarok to use whatever codec is working for mplayer?
> >>
> >> No, you need to install the codecs which phonon/xine will use.
> >>
> >>
> > Sorry if this isn't the correct place to ask this, but do you happen to
> > know
> > what packages are required under Ubuntu to install the correct codecs?
> >
> > I've got amarok-xine, libxine1 and libxine1-ffmpeg installed and I'd have
> > thought that the aiff codec would be in there somewhere?
> >
> > Thanks!
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