Kaffeine: Can't play AVI, WMV, etc.

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Help! Whenever I try to open an AVI or WMV with kaffeine, I get a xine error stating there’s “No plugin found to handle this resource”

I am using a fresh install of 11.1 with KDE 4.1 and I have followed the 10 step multimedia troubleshooting guide and everything seems OK to me (obviously I am missing something).

Here’s the output from the 10 steps:

1: Check if there are missing dependencies
LC_ALL=C zypper ve
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied.

2: Check which packages are from VideoLAN repository
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} → %{VENDOR}
’ | grep -i VideoLAN
libdvdcss → VideoLAN Project (VideoLAN - Free and Open Source software and video streaming solutions for every OS!)

3: Check Basic MultiMedia packages
rpm --verify --query --all ‘libav*’ ‘libpostproc*’ ‘libswscale*’

4: Verify xine is installed from Packman
rpm --query --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH} → %{VENDOR}
’ libxine1 libxine1-codecs
libxine1-1.1.15-44.pm.2-i686 → packman.links2linux.de
libxine1-codecs-1.1.15-44.pm.2-i686 → packman.links2linux.de

5: Check xine packages
rpm --verify --query --all ‘xine’

6: Verify gstreamer plugins (codecs) installed and from Packman
rpm --query --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH} → %{VENDOR}
’ gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg-0.10.6-42.pm.1-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.7-42.pm.2-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.15-42.pm.1-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux-0.10.4-42.pm.1-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.8-42.pm.2-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.21-42.pm.1-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.10-42.pm.3-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra-0.10.10-42.pm.3-i586 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.10-42.pm.2-i586 → packman.links2linux.de

7: Check gstreamer packages
rpm --verify --query --all ‘gst’

8: Check Mplayer package
rpm --verify MPlayer

9: Check VLC package
rpm --verify --query --all ‘vlc’

10: Check w32codec package
rpm --verify w32codec-all

Extra info:
rpm --query --all --queryformat '%{NAME} → %{VENDOR}
’ ‘libav*’ ‘libpostproc*’ ‘libswscale*’ ‘xine’ ‘gst’ ‘layer’ ‘vlc’ ‘kaffeine’ | grep -v avahi| sort
MPlayer → packman.links2linux.de
amarok-xine → packman.links2linux.de
flash-player → openSUSE
gstreamer-0_10 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3 → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-lang → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-lang → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-schroedinger → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-utils → packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-utils → packman.links2linux.de
kaffeine → packman.links2linux.de
libavc1394-0 → openSUSE
libavcodec52 → packman.links2linux.de
libavdevice52 → packman.links2linux.de
libavformat52 → packman.links2linux.de
libavutil49 → packman.links2linux.de
libgstapp-0_10-0 → packman.links2linux.de
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0 → packman.links2linux.de
libgstreamer-0_10-0 → packman.links2linux.de
libpostproc51 → packman.links2linux.de
libswscale0 → packman.links2linux.de
libxine1 → packman.links2linux.de
libxine1-codecs → packman.links2linux.de
libxine1-gnome-vfs → packman.links2linux.de
libxine1-pulse → packman.links2linux.de
libxvidcore4 → packman.links2linux.de
phonon-backend-gstreamer-0_10 → openSUSE
phonon-backend-xine → openSUSE
pullin-flash-player → openSUSE
smplayer → packman.links2linux.de
xinetd → openSUSE
xvidcore → packman.links2linux.de

Thanks in advance.

PS: Oddly, I can play DVDs in kaffeine just fine.

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look for
libffmpeg0

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And check this
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

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Great messy it seems around there :slight_smile:

you only need xine packages from Packman repo or see last post from caf4926.

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OK, I went through that post (which was also my starting point in coming to this issue) and ensured libffmpeg0 was is installed from Packman. I am not sure why it was missing but still no luck with kaffeine.

I should have mentioned that while I can’t play video files through kaffeine, I can play them just fine directly through xine which doesn’t make sense to me,

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Hy there

Damend, many thanks for your clear instructions! I use OpenSUSE 11.1 on a dualbootsystem with Windows XP, and the last three days I had serious problems with my video and DVD-collection: Kaffeine gave a scrambled image.
I tried everything: deinstall packages, install packages, install different codecs, … you name it, I did it. Now I found your explanations on the forum, and I just finished the 10-step-control. EVERYTHING WORKS AGAIN, thank you man, you made my day!!:slight_smile:
To everybody: if you are using OpenSUSE 11.1, and use Kaffeine to play videos and DVD’s, then this is the way to check all settings and packages when you have playback problems like I did.
Again, Damend, thanks for your work, and I hope I will be able to contribute to the forum some time in the future - I am new to OpenSUSE…

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Make certain you have the version of kaffeine packaged by packman, and not the version packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH. Also ensure you have selected the xine engine in kaffeine, and not the gstreamer engine.

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Thanks but I can’t take this credit. It belongs to caf4926.

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Yast shows kaffeine is 0.8.7-2.pm.2-i686 from Packman and I verified that it is configured to use kaffeine-xine (I don’t have kaffeine-gstreamer installed).

Since I don’t have a lot invested in this installation, I am considering re-installing openSUSE 11.1 and then triying the one-click option from Multimedia - openSUSE-Community. Would it be a fair expectation that this would resolve my issue with Kaffeine?

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Not really. Didn’t you already say you were able to play in xine?!

What happens with VLC? smplayer? (the packman versions of course)

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Oops, wrong person…
caf4926, thanks for the good job. :slight_smile: Actually, I still had a little problem after walking the ten steps: In root I could watch videos, but in normal user login I could not. I resolved this through user management, and giving me - the normal user - some extra rights: audio, video, users. After that, all is back to normal. I don’t know if this is related to my problem - as I said, I am new to OpenSUSE - but it did the trick.
Again, many thanks.

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xine, smplayer, & vlc all seem to work fine. Only kaffeine is at issue.

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In my case simply adding users to group ‘disk’ and group ‘cdrom’ fixed the issue I think you had.

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Try switching the output video mode of kaffeine player from “auto” or from “xv” (xvideo) to “x11”

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How about giving us the output of the following to check your rpm versions:

rpm --query --all 'libav*' 'libpostproc*' 'libswscale*' '*xine*' '*gst*' '*layer*' '*kaffeine*' '*ffmpeg*' '*vlc*' | grep -v avahi | sort

If your rpms are the correct versions, then rather re-installing Linux, IMHO a superior approach is to remove kaffeine. Then rename the directory:

/home/your-user-name/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine

to

/home/your-user-name/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine-old

and then re-install kaffeine from packman. (where “your-user-name” is your regular user name). [the above is for kde3].

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For kde4 if there is no kd3 directory, then check here for a similar kaffeine directory:

/home/your-user-name/.kde4/share/apps

I have not run kaffeine under kde4, so I do not know where kde4 stores the kaffeine directory.

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Deleting /home/your-user-name/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine, un-installing kaffeine, and then re-installing it resolved this issue.

Thanks!