On 11.08.2009 09:38, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:22:34 Allan McRae wrote: > >>> Thirded :) I am still missing notification sounds from kopete though. And >>> now I don't have any default device in system settings -> multimedia -> >>> audio output -> * >>> >> Did you all install the needed gstreamer plugins for the files you >> wanted to play? >> > > Yes I think. > > $ pacman -Qs gstreamer > local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.23-1 > GStreamer Multimedia Framework > local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.23-1 > GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries > local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.23-2 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) > GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base) > > However doing pacman -Ss gstreamer isn't exactly friendly. What exactly good, > bad and ugly plugins mean? Do I need ffmpeg plugins for mp3? > > FWIW, can we just default to xine backend? I don't know much about either of > them but one of them got sound and other one didn't. I hope thats not a too- > stupid of a request. > > I think the request is good. Since I'm just a lowly Arch user, could any of the KDE package maintainers/Arch devs have a say here? From the sounds of it, it appears as though Phonon is still flawed to an extent that it shouldn't be the default.
