[kde-freebsd] Phonon won't play mp3

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

Hi,

I don't have amarok installed, but Dragon Player plays mp3s for me just fine. 
I have Phonon using the gstreamer backend on kde-4.8.4 with up-to-date ports. 
(FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE i386).

Have you tried forcing a re-install of all the gstreamer stuff?

Cheers,
DMK

On July 8, 2012 10:53:33 AM David Naylor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I cannot get Amarok, or any other phonon-based player, to play MP3s.  Amarok
> declares that "Phonon claims it *cannot* play MP3 files.  You may want to
> examine the installation that phonon uses.  ...".  Ogg files play without a
> problem and VLC media player can play MP3 files.
> 
> I have the following installed:
> # pkg info -q amarok gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-all gstreamer-plugins-mp3 
\
> ... kde phonon phonon-gstreamer phonon-vlc
> amarok-2.5.0_3
> gstreamer-0.10.36
> gstreamer-plugins-all-1.3.0.10.1_13
> gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.10.0_1
> kde-4.8.4
> phonon-4.6.0_1
> phonon-gstreamer-4.6.0_1
> phonon-vlc-0.5.0_1
> 
> I have tried both vlc and gstreamer backends as preferred and neither work
> (also, the gstreamer backend causes amarok to crash [sig 11] on exit).  I
> have checked that the mimetype is audio/mpeg for the mp3 file and that both
> phononbackends/(gstreamer|vlc).desktop support it.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Regards