FS#15874 - [kaffeine] 1.0pre1 : could not open media source

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eric (zebulon) - Sunday, 09 August 2009, 21:05 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 07 September 2009, 08:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi,

When trying to play a video file or a DVB-T channel, I get this error:
"Could not open media source"

DVB-T channel scanning works perfectly. There may a problem with the video output. Are there any dependency missing (xine backend ?)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 07 September 2009, 08:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Sunday, 09 August 2009, 23:33 GMT
Kaffeine wont work with the gstreamer backend which is the default now. This is some kind of upstream problem; the question is who to blame: Gstreamer, Qt, KDE or kaffeine?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 13:00 GMT
pacman -S phonon-xine might help here but im not sure.
New kaffeine release is expectin august
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 13:45 GMT
you can try new kaffeine package from testing ...
Comment by Eric (zebulon) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 18:13 GMT
At first, pre2 had the same issue.
I then installed phonon-xine as you recommended, but still same problem. But after restarting the system (may probably have worked after restarting KDE only), kaffeine now works. therefore I guess phonon-xine was indeed required, and you may want to add it as a dependency. Thanks.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 18:17 GMT
tHe problem is that some other apps only work with gstreamer and you cannot use both at the same time. This is a quite annoying problem but nobody seems to be responsable for this. Qt only supports gstreamer. KDE devs say that apps shouldn't depend on specific backend and I could only image what the kaffeine dev will tell us why he only supports the xine backend.

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