Kaffeine can't find codecs etc.

[John Meyer]

John wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 15:15, John wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 14:09, John Meyer wrote:
>>> John wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> Have you tried reinstalling the codecs from packman?
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>> I hadn't tried that but have now - no change.
> 
> One odd thing about this when I try to load a file from kaffeine using "all 
> supported media files" it shows none in directories that contain mp3's, avi's 
> etc.
> 

How about deleting the codecs completely, then reinstalling.
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