[kde-freebsd] KDE4: KsCD not playing tracks

Adriaan de Groot groot at kde.org
Thu Aug 14 20:10:13 UTC 2014


On Thursday 14 August 2014 10:53:17 Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > 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.

That was the easiest -- in the end -- fix for a weird problem I've ever had. 
Thanks, Tijl.

[ade] (now listening to a Kyteman CD thanks to this)


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