Ok, I just installed opensuse 11.3 Im a new user to both linux and this distro(tooled around with ubuntu a bit) and have a question that is stumping me. I downloaded and installed all the extra restricted libraries, codecs, etc, and for some reason I cant get any audio player(banshee, amarok, kaffeine, smplayer, etc) to play flac files. I checked and it appears that I have all the gstreamer libraries and xine as well that I need. When I try playing a flac file with kaffeine, it says:
Cannot find demux plugin for MRL “file:///home/hayes/Music/The%20Good,%20The%20Bad%20and%20The%20Ugly/001%20-%20Ennio%20Morricone%20-%20The%20Good,%20The%20Bad%20And%20The%20Ugly%20-%20Il%20Buono,%20Il%20Cattivo,%20Il%20Brutto%20(The%20Good,%20The%20Bad%20And%20The%20Ugly)%20(Main%20Title).flac”.
I have tried several different flac files, and none seem to work. Im about ready to throw my laptop out the window, been working at this problem all day and cant seem to find any post about it, though my vision is getting blury
I might ask you to try one more thing. I have a bash script you can download and run in a terminal session to further check your multimedia setup that is called mmcheck:
Message #40 has the most recent version. Download it to your local bin folder, make it executable and run it from a terminal session. It will help you determine if there are any other files that might be missing.
Ok, here is an update on my situation as it stands. I have redone everything in the restricted/multimedia thread like I did when I first installed opensuse. Then I went and did what jdmcdaniel3 suggest with his scripts. Everything is packman that should be packman, and is installed. The one thing I dont have is Pulseaudio. Not sure what to do to get it, or if its needed with KDE.
Also I said screw it and reinstalled all my sound libraries in case something wasnt linked correct(i still have that windows mindsight huh?) and everything is reinstalled like it was.
Thanks btw for those posts jdmcdaniel3, being a total linux newb I never even messed with bash scripts before, you gave me a free lesson that Im grateful for
Anyway, nothing, everything is as should be. Sound works perfectly, movies play perfect, mp4/aac/ogg all work like a charm. It is just flac files. And I tried all of them(they all worked before the move to opensuse). I tried playing the flac files with xine, and it spits back the same message as kaffeine. I tried playing the files with VLC and amarok, they dont spit back the message, just say that the file is 0:00/0:00 long. Hrm.
I guess the only good thing Im getting out of this is that I have to get my hands dirty with this operation system, needed some motivation to actually learn linux, ubuntu unfortunately held my hand too much. Im a big KDE fan and love the stability of this OS(kubuntu was a friggin nightmare on my computer), but I miss my flac files I know I can convert and play em as mp3s, but im a stickler for principal. Any ideas?
Can you post on some download site an example FLAC file that is giving you difficulty, so those trying to help on this thread can test the file, and see what application they have that plays the file?
Apologies gropiuskalle, forgot to reply. Yes, tried that, flac was already installed.
AAAGGGHHH. Well folks, I figured out the problem. Man do I feel like an idiot. When I backed the music files up to several dvds, for whatever reason the FLAC files got corrupted. I tried an old backup set(thank God I didnt throw em away) and voila, works. I want to go on record and say I am in the process of kicking myself in the butt I should have tested the backup before I went through all of this, but sometimes the most obvious of answers can elude us. This kinda irritates me cause I downloaded every music player immaginable, and must have enough unused libraries on my computer now to fill up my hard drive. haha.
Many thanks to everyone for their quick response, I must say posting on this forum I was less than optimistic that anyone would even reply, Ive tried posting on the ubuntu forums before, people respond but its usually 50 people saying “I have the problem to.” Well, at the very least, I was reminded why you check the simplist things first, and I also got a quick lesson in making scripts
