Amarok/xine driver problems

[ben miller]

On Sunday 02 September 2007 7:02:18 am Peter Garrett wrote:
> Have you tried playing music using only xine? For example, from the
> terminal:
>
> xine /path/to/loudmusic.mp3
>
> If that doesn't work, it might at least show some error messages.

If I do that, Xine goes into outer space and the quits without providing so 
much as an error message.

>
> Have you installed  libxine-extracodecs   ?
>
> Neither xine nor any player based on its engine will play mp3  or several
> other formats without those codecs. Try it.

Yes, those are installed. And thanks for your follow-up message, too.