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