On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realize most people here aren't very enthused about Gst becoming the > backend of choice for phonon, but it is happening, and will be shipped > by default with the next Kubuntu. I've built it from git at Harald's > request, and got an instant crash when I pressed play after > successfully building and changing backends. Also at his request, I > issued the following commands before starting up Amarok: > > export PHONON_PULSEAUDIO_DEBUG=5 > export PHONON_VLC_DEBUG=5 > export PHONON_GST_DEBUG=5 > export PHONON_XINE_DEBUG=5 > export PHONON_DEBUG=5 > > and posted the relevant part of the output in the bug. Once I added > gstreamer-extras and gstreamer-ugly-multiverse to the gst-good package > I already had, I can successfully play the mp3s in my playlist. > > This is all in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261356 > > Why the post to the list: to ask why I got no popup telling me I > needed more codecs. I though kubuntu-restricted-extras would cover me, > but they are not included. Another note to the Kubuntu devels about > this is next! But our users should be prompted to add codecs instead > of Amarok crashing.
To be honest, if Kubuntu insists on making the questionable decision to go with this backend (which I have explicitly advised against multiple times), then it would be a nice gesture of them to help us with debugging this crash. -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer, CEO of Kretschmann Software Consulting Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org - http://kde.org _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
