[kde-edu]: Phonon freezes KTouch

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

Le Sunday 30 September 2007 23:11:03 Andreas Nicolai, vous avez écrit :
> Hi there,
>
> I just compiled the most current kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase and kdeedu
> SVN versions and found that KTouch was freezing during start up. The
> problem is the Phonon library, after initializing the Xine-backend and
> selecting the output plugin the execution just stopped.
>
> In my local copy I simply commented out the lines where m_player in
> KTouchTrainer is initialized (the lines with Phonon::createPlayer() ), and
> now it works nicely again.
>
> This should be checked and tested when the October KDE4 release is made.
> Given the fact, that Phonon is not quite ready, I would even suggest
> leaving out (= not compile) the sound part in KTouch until KDE's
> sound/multimedia engine works.  What do you think?
>
> Bye,
> Andreas

Any Phonon problem should be debugged and talked to with the Phonon developer. 
Especially from KDE-Edu applications as some rely on sound to work.

What sound should be enabled? Can you hear any other sounds in KDE4? What is 
your libxine version?

Thanks in advance,

Anne-Marie