[kde-freebsd] Phonon won't play mp3

[David Naylor]

On Sunday, 8 July 2012 15:50:59 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> 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).

Dragon Player doesn't work either (nor Juk).  

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

I have reinstalled phonon and phonon-gstreamer and gstreamer itself recently 
had an update.  With KDE 4.9 I will do a full reinstall...

Regards

> 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
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