Kaffeine can't find codecs etc.

[John]

I seem to have lost the ability to play anything from mp3 to avi's etc after 
installing kaffiene 8.3. I've followed the suggested link for a replacement 
for the suse xine and installed that plus newer libcaca and libtheora to get 
round dependencies. I didn't need to install new versions of alsa or speex.

If I run kaffeine -w it can find win32 etc and is only unhappy because it 
can't access /dev/dvd - permission refused. (on suse 
that's /media/dvdrecorder). I did try adding a simulink but that doesn't seem 
to help. Maybe I haven't done that in the right way?

Going on from that if I click on anything that kaffiene should play it comes 
up with "can't find plugin to handle etc" even on an mp3.

I have also tried to run a file directly from xine and get the same error 
message. All of the codecs etc are there as installed my mplayer but there is 
no indication where xine expects to find them. The kaffeine wizard definitely 
does find them!. Also the xine load log shows that it can't find a demux for 
an mpv file. Xine also seems to be installed in a "simple user mode" maybe 
more advanced modes allow the codec directories to be specified. There 
doesn't seem to be any way of changing this.

Curiously all but dvd playing was fine with the original suse installation 
once mplayer had been install. That still functions perfectly.
Adding the dvd lib didn't allow dvd's to be played. The best I managed was - 
have you permission to play this. Running as root didn't help either.

'elp.

-- 
Regards
John

Suse 10.0
KDE 3.4.2 B
___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.