Kaffeine 1.0 and Kubuntu

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 22:47:05 (CEST), Valter Mura wrote:

>> AFAIUI, vlc loads libavcodec.so at runtime via
>> /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so, similar to xine which
>> kubuntu currently uses. The major difference is that for xine, the
>> 'avcodec' plugin is in the package 'libxine1-ffmpeg', which is
>> blacklisted on the CDs as well. I'm pretty sure that something similar
>> could be arranged for vlc as well. We haven't done that yet because
>> there is (was) no technical necessity for this.
>> 
>> All in all, this all sounds like a realistically solvable problem to me.
>
> so, in this, case, why don't consider the use of "kplayer"? It's based on 
> mplayer and has also subtitle functionalities.

mplayer is dynamically linked against libavcodec, and cannot be
configured to load it at runtime. AFAIUI, this rules out all mplayer
based solutions.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4