Upgraded from Hardy to Jaunty, now only sound in KDE 4 apps

[Matthew Flaschen]

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> I suppose you are using the default KDE 4.2.2, right?

Yes.

> Then you have a KDE3 version of Kaffeine and need the correct libraries.

I don't really care about Kaffeine per se (it was just an example that
KDE 3 apps don't work).  However, what libraries are you referring to?

> Sound with Flash is another problem, but this is often due to a
> conflict and has not been definitely solved for now. The culprit is
> definitely Flash, and it causes problems, especially with the 64bit
> architecture.

I don't have a 64-bit processor, and as I said it isn't just Flash.
/Nothing/ (that I've tried) besides KDE 4 apps plays sound.

> Normally the package flashplugin-installer in the
> multiverse repository should provide you with the correct flash
> version, installing from Adobe is not recommended.

I tried that.  However, that /does/ install from Adobe, per the package
description (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/flashplugin-installer)

> FWIW, it seems that Opera can handle Flash better than Firefox.

I would prefer not to install Opera, and I really doubt that's the issue .

> Pulseaudio is definitely not part of Kubuntu Jaunty, the default
> should be phonon with the xine backend. Installing  openoffice.org
> unfortunately drags in pulseaudio and this leads to more than strange
> audio results.

Of course, I do have openoffice.org, as well as many other GTK and/or
GNOME apps.

> For now, the easiest and probably best solution is to remove
> pulseaudio (there will be a remaining library called libpulse0 one can
> not remove without compromising KDE4) as the KDE applications do not
> need it, set the phonon backend to xine and remove gstreamer if it has
> been installed.

Can you clarify this a bit more?  Which packages should be removed, and
how do I change the phonon backend?

 The codecs can be found in kubuntu-restricted-extras.
> 
> VLC should work without problem, I guess pulseaudio is again to blame
> and removing it should solve that. Make sure you have all three needed
> packages installed: vlc, libvlc2 and libvlccore0

Thank you. When I ran:

sudo apt-get install vlc libvlc2 libvlccore0

it upgraded vlc and brought in several dependencies.  I think this was
because I didn't have multiverse enabled while dist-upgrading.

I did a apt-get upgrade after that, which brought in a upgrade to
vlc-plugin-pulse among other things.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, mplayer, and a couple other
packages were kept back.

Finally, I did a vlc reinstall.  I should also note that I had some
multimedia code, including vlc, built from source.  Hopefully, I've
cleared that out.

> Hope this helps.

Thanks very much,

Matt Flaschen