Kaffeine can't find codecs etc.

[John]

Tried the other directories and still no good. I have noticed postings on the 
web about kaffeine and suse. If they are true I think I'm going to switch to 
something else.

John

On Friday 30 March 2007 16:01, John wrote:
> On Thursday 29 March 2007 01:11, John Meyer wrote:
> > 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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> I can't see how deleting and then reinstalling the codecs can help as they
> have been updated when I re installed. Kaffiene detects them too but for
> some reason won't use them. Prior to updating Kaffiene and Xine everything
> was fine. Just a straight suse payed for installation. I then installed
> mplayer and all of the usual codecs were then available. I have also copied
> codec into the correct directory manually on earlier suse installations.

-- 
Regards
John

Suse 10.0
KDE 3.4.2 B
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