Can't see videos in Kaffeine

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#1

Hi,

I’m using suse 12.3 with KDE Each time I want to see a video in Kaffeine a message appears:

Kaffeine currently cannot play some file formats. Do you want to install additional support?

The options are install or no. I click on install, enter the root password and the Repositories I installed are displayed, I click ok, and all the same thing, the roos password again and it’s a loop with no end.

Does somebody knows which package I have to install to see videos in Kaffeine ?

Or how to end with this loop of the repositories screen-root password ask ?

Thanks in advance for any feedback,

Regards

Agunet74

#2

My suggestion is two fold:

  1. Follow this guide for multimedia unless you know better, and please give examples: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/caf4926/opensuse-12-3-multi-media-restricted-format-installation-guide-126/
  2. Forget about Kaffeine, I did and I use vlc. See my multimedia checkup here: MMCHECK - Version 2.35 - Check Your Multimedia in 16 Steps - Bash Script File - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Kaffeine was written to work with xine and the xine backend. PulseAudio is designed to work with gstreamer. I think to get Kaffeine to work, you would need to disable PulseAudio (DO NOT UNINSTALL PULSE) and install and switch to the xine backend, you might find it in the VideoLAN repository, but I am not sure. Consider that VLC from Packman works just fine and if you go down the road to using xine, its a dead end and you will find yourself in a very lonely place. That is because even if you get it to work today, it will get harder and harder to do so in the future with each new release of openSUSE and you are just delaying what will come to pass in spite of your best efforts akin to swimming upstream. I was a big fan of Kaffeine (KDE3) and miss its ability to stretch video vertically, separate from horizontal, but it is just not going to be in this age of Pulse and gstreamer.

Thank You,

#3

On 2013-03-21 22:26, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
> Kaffeine was written to work with xine and the xine backend.
> PulseAudio is designed to work with gstreamer. I think to get Kaffeine
> to work, you would need to disable PulseAudio (DO NOT UNINSTALL PULSE)

I just tried kaffeine in 12.1, and sound is playing fine via pulse
(under xfce).

I have not used kaffeine in a long time, so I don’t know how to
configure it. But I do know that xine has a pulse backend which works
just fine, because if you start xine and go to its setup, it is there
under the audio tab.

Probably you need to install “libxine2-pulse…rpm”.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

#4

Why two identical posts, same title, same OP, but different thread counts? For a minute there I thought I had one too many. :D.

#5

This is a double post. Please do not do that.
The other one is here: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/484821-cant-see-videos-kaffeine.html

It is already solved in the other one, thus posting here is wasted energy!

This is CLOSED

#6

On 03/22/2013 02:26 AM, consused wrote:
> Why two identical posts,

and there are two different threads in nntp! beginning at two
different times with the same message ID (impossible)

  1. Message-ID: <agunet74.5skmc0@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
    Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:06:02 GMT

  2. Message-ID: <agunet74.5skkhc@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
    Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:26:01 GMT

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