[kde-freebsd] KDE4: KsCD not playing tracks

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:25:50 +0300 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> writes:
>> El día Wednesday, August 13, 2014 a las 11:20:14AM +0200, Adriaan de Groot escribió:
>>> On Monday 11 August 2014 10:42:33 Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>>> KsCD sees the tracks on the audio CD but when I press PLAY, only a
>>>> banner is running '01 - Unknown title'; the time is shown as '00:00'
>>>> without any updating and ofc no audio comes out.
>>>
>>> The same still applies inKDE 4.12.5; kscd does detect the drive and disc (and
>>> uses musicbrainz to find track info), but play just scrolls the title of track
>>> 1 at time 00:00.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> It might come down to an issue in Phonon, though. Or in the gstreamer backend.
>>> The KsCD code seems to just call play() on a Phonon media object, which
>>> delegates it down to the backend.
> 
> I've experienced it here too, and it's a problem in either GStreamer
> itself or phonon-gstreamer: Dragon Player had the same problem playing
> an audio CD, and both Dragon and KSCD worked perfectly with the VLC
> backend (multimedia/phonon-vlc), so that's the easiest way to solve the
> problem at the moment.

What gstreamer plugins do you have installed?  I think you need
audio/gstreamer-plugins-cdparanoia to play an audio CD.  You probably
also need read access to /dev/cd0.