Feedback: simple but important issue

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:29, Marc Schmid <schmid.m at access.uzh.ch> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I'm slowly getting used to Amarok (changed from GNOME to KDE). Seems to be a
> good player - I'm just not yet able to customise the appearance in detail.
>
> One - somehow simple - issue would be crucial to solve:
> Using a basic installation of Kubuntu (9.10, 64 bit), the player did not work.
> The problems were the codecs and n o t the xine or pulseaudio (as often found
> in the forums - I guess this is only a problem if several desktops are
> installed).
> -> For a clean Kubuntu installation one needs to install:
> 1. some libxine (the base and ffmpeg packages)
> 2. from packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free and non-free the win64 or win32
> codecs.
> 3. eventually also kaffeine (this is written on ubuntu.org - but should also
> work without).
>
> I strongly recommend to implement a notification within the program that tells
> you "missing codec" instead of "too many errors, playlist stopped" - so that
> one at least knows that the codecs are the problem (if you do not want to
> automatically install the packages from medibuntu.org). Of course better would
> be a autoinstallation (question at first amarok startup) or a notification at
> the first start that tells you where/how to get the codecs.

This is already solved in the upcoming Kubuntu 10.04. BTW, this does
not depend on Amarok, but on the distribution to implement an
automatic download when a missing codec is detected.


Regards, Myriam.

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