Phonon newbie problem

[Yogesh Marwaha]

On 09/12/2007, Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2007, Yogesh Marwaha wrote:
> > I'm trying to use Phonon in my app (Qt4) but when it is run an error
> > "cannot create path" is generated. This also happens for tutorial2 in
> > Phonon svn, though amarok(4) works. (all are run in KDE3); but when I run
> > them in KDE4 they all work. What is the reason behind this behaviour? KDE4
> > still is not usable enough for me and so I want to use KDE3 and (still) use
> > Phonon. Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Hi,
>
> is "cannot create path" really the first error you get? I assume it's a
> follow-up error to "cannot create backend". QPluginLoader needs to find a
> plugin installed in the KDE4 prefix. To make it do that:
>   export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib/kde4/plugins
>
> startkde in KDE4 does it for you, that's why it works automatically. Also
> KApplication hardcodes the path and adds it to the library paths so that all
> KDE4 apps will work correctly regardless of the QT_PLUGIN_PATH being set.
>
> This will not be necessary anymore once Qt starts shipping backends...
>

Thanks for helpful reply, it works now.
BTW "cannot create path" was the first and only message thrown by phonon.


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Yogesh M