Kaffeine can't find codecs etc.

[John]

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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