On 2011-04-03 00:33:30 Duncan wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. posted on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:29:13 -0500 as >excerpted: >> Sound works in Dragon Player, but not Kaffeine. I'd prefer to use >> Kaffeine, because I have a playlist of files I'd like to play on my >> second monitor while I play with Haskell on my primary monitor. I don't >> want to have to fiddle with the video player after each video. > >As I said, smplayer's got the same rich set of advanced features that >kaffeine for kde3 did. The biggest difference is that kaffeine is xinelib >based while smplayer is as one might guess, mplayer based. (The netbook >doesn't need the full-features and VLC's fine, there.) I prefer xine, as I've had better luck with it accepting whatever media I throw at it. However, modern Kaffeine doesn't use Xine, it uses Phonon. My local Phonon uses Xine. I'm fine with not using Kaffeine, but I would like to continue using Phonon. Dragon would be fine if it would let me queue up an entire season of M*A*S*H, for example. >If you prefer to stay with kaffeine... in the order I thought of them, NOT >necessarily the order I'd recommend trying them... > >* Do you use pulse-audio? No. It's not installed. Jack is, and that gives me a new Phonon device, but it is set to low preference. >* You've checked kaffeine to ensure that it's not muted, and that the >volume is reasonably high in kaffeine itself, right? Yes. Kaffeine itself is not muted, and dragging the volume slider changes nothing. >* In the phonon system-settings in panel, what >backend are you using? Xine. >YMMV as they say, but here and for a number of >others that have posted with phonon-related issues, phonon-vlc has >functioned FAR better for me than the default phonon-xine. I can try that, but I don't think this is an Phonon issue. I think it is a Kaffeine issue. Dragon player uses Phonon and sound works perfectly in it. >You might try >it, ESPECIALLY if you have a dialog popping up on boot or somewhat >randomly, complaining about missing audio devices and asking if you want >to delete them -- that's a phonon-xine backend bug that at least here, >TOTALLY disappeared when I switched to phonon-vlc. I've never gotten those messages, except for when I removed Audio hardware. That hasn't happened recently. >* Still in phonon's kcontrol panel, you may want to take one of the >settings that's known working and hit apply device list to (might be >worded slightly differently in 4.4)... and select everything. Already did that. When I was testing / prioritizing devices I was on the "Games" role. After I got that working, I applied it to all the other audio output roles. >* IDR what sort of audio output selection kaffeine had and it may have >changed since the beta I used, but depending on your sound hardware and >ALSA setup, it's not uncommon for only one app to be able to directly >access audio at a time. I have a high-end sound card that does hardware mixing so /dev/dsp (for example) can be opened up to 32 times concurrently. However, Kaffeine uses Phonon now (very few settings to change in my Kaffeine) so I wouldn't expect that to be a problem. Even if Phonon doesn't hide such issues, I'm already set up for mixing; Amarok, Dragon, and event-triggered sounds can all play at once, though it makes quite a cacophony. I'm not at the computer in question, but I'll try another Phonon back-end when I get back to it and report back at that time. Thanks for the reply. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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