ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 247

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Tue May 23 08:13:25 UTC 2006


On Monday 22 May 2006 15:35, Shawn Brockmeier wrote:
> I can hear the Ubuntu start-up chime and watch Flash videos with
> sound, but if I download an mpeg file and try to watch it in
> Kaffeine, I just get video and no audio. I've confirmed that mute
> is turned off in Kaffeine. I've tried watching mpeg files in Totem
> Movie Player, but it can't play mpeg files. This is the same in
> both Gnome and KDE.

In Settings -> xine Engine Parameters, which sound daemon is kaffeine 
expecting to use? If you started KDE, it's a good bet that arts is 
running, this will do a marvelous job of blocking apps that want to 
use esd for instance. Try setting it to 'auto' or try each in turn 
till you find one that works.

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Alan McKinnon
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