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? > >>> ___________________________________________________ > >>> 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. > >> > >> 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. > ___________________________________________________ > 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. 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 ___________________________________________________ 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.