Kaffeine ignoring phonon settings in Natty

Valorie Zimmerman valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com
Sun May 8 09:26:56 UTC 2011


On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:09 AM, schmirrwurst
<schmirrwurst at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Since I switched to natty, I can't play kaffeine on my external usb speakers...
> The settings in Phonon works with all other kde apps, but not with kaffeine...
>
> I first though it is because of the gstreamer backend, but I changed to xine to
> try, and it is the same...
>
> I've red somehow that kaffeine is using libxine somehow directly, but does it
> mean it doesn't use kde settings at all, Am I not able to play it on my usb
> speaker anymore ???
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272681

Kaffeine doesn't use phonon, nor does it use xine anymore. It uses
Gstreamer as a backend, without phonon. Be sure you have the necessary
codecs installed for Gstreamer.

Does your USB speaker show up in Pulseaudio/Veromix ?

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