Installed phonon en phonon-backend-xine
Installed VLC beta from Videolan
Now in Systemsettings - Multimedia - Phonon - backend i can choose VLC !!!
Far better then xine
susegebr Installed phonon en phonon-backend-xine
Installed VLC beta from Videolan
Now in Systemsettings - Multimedia - Phonon - backend i can choose VLC !!!
Far better then xine
In what way is vlc better susegebr? Can you go into vlc, modify your configuration and have it effect all kde applications for instance? What kind of speaker sound setup do you have right now? Inquiring minds want to know what better means and I really want to know as you could be very very right here.
Thank You,
Hello jdmcdaniel3
1e more codecs for VLC far more then xine
2e configuration off VLC has more items you can configure then xine
3e the sound is more crispy and full spectrum compared to xine
All my vcds and dvds work like a charm on a 7.1 surround system (Creative l +r back l+r center and woofer
so the notifications are soundwise better then with xine
and last but not least there is a alsa driver for VLC
i’ve been in a couple discussions about the vlc backend and hopefully it’s benefits, but the rpm that is available in playground (i’m assuming that your previous post which mentions phonon-backend-xine really means phonon-backend-vlc) requires Qt 4.7beta which most users are not using.
myself included. simply having the beta VLC installed doesn’t give you the backend.
Hello j_xavier
There is no phonon-backend-vlc
I installed phonon-backend-xine en de installed phonon-backend-gstreamer
Then installed VLC from videolan
Now in Systemsettings - Multimedia - Phonon - backend i can choose VLC
thats all
hope it helps
There is a Phonon-backend-vlc located in the following repository:
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Stable
I did load it and it seems to work, or at least it seems to not stop anything from working. I am able to get Dolby Digital 5.1 Pass Through to work in Kaffeine and vlc, but it is hard to know if they are using the selected backend for instance.
Thank You,
hello jdmcdaniel3
in Systemsettings - Multimedia - Phonon - backend i choose VLC then you have the following devices:
HDA-NVidia analoog
HDA-NVidia digital
default
dummy
aout_sdl
oss
jack
portaudio
aout_file
alsa
Yes susegebr I have the same bottom eight devices you show, but the top five devices are from MY sound card, which is not nVidia, like yours is. So, it seems to be working I think. I have found no advantage or disadvantage so far, just more devices listed. But all audio device still work, just as they did when the xine backend was selected.
Thank You,
jdmcdaniel3
I got VCL as backend choise through installing phonon-vlc from videolan
so no need for a beta phonon-backend vlc BETA
Did not noticed it as i alway install everithing from videolan except vlc-1.1.4.4.4
I did not install the beta either, but my vlc just says it is version 1.1.4 and not 1.1.4.4.4, but I am not going to try and find those last .4.4 as I am not sure what difference that would make for a working system.
Thank You,
now i’m even more confused :), the vlc 1.2beta at:
does not show a backend available for me… how you guys ended up with that option seems very mysterious.
Once again j_xavier, to install the phonon-backend-vlc, add the following repository:
“http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Stable/”
As for the vlc beta, it just looks like an older file, replaced by newer ones, which are no longer beta. But that is just what it looks like to me, not being an expert on vlc releases.
Thank You,
VLC 1.1.4 and Beta have the following audio devices:
ALSA
FILE
JACK
OSS
PortAdio
and each off them have further params to configure
Then in Vlc preferences audio output-module there are more possible entrys you can set
default VLC has output-module default
Myself i use "Simple DirectMedia Layer audio output
that gives no problems with several directoties with ogg files
cause changing directori stops the audio device otherwise
j_xavier
install as mentioned in one off the messages phonon-vlc
j_xavier
install phonon-vlc from videolan that will do
In the vlc backend i have a choise for ‘default’
so ihave all the choises connected to ‘default’
in VLC audio = Simple-DirectMedia Layer audio output
this done i have to take volume back in the kde Mixer
Tho i think this is running through VLC as the volume default is higher there
all references to installed xine are deleted and kde bindings xine except phonon-backend-xine lol!
so no libxine or whatever
Sound is stil working so VLC has taken over Xine
Xine oriented players are deleted as VLC can do a better job i think 
Ater a reboot no sound nomore so the beta phonon-bankend -vlc does not work and i cant find kde-bindings-vlc for kde 4.5.1
So back to the drawing board and install the xine rpm’s
Ihave been on a debian forum , there was the developer off phonon-backend-vlc
i had some questions they were in the forum and there it was VLC 1.2.0beta is not supported bij phonon-backend-vlc not before years end
So deleted vlc 1.2.0beta and
installed vlc 1.1.4
and the rpm phonon-backend-vlc from opensuse repositorie
Deleted phonon-backend-xine
reboot
Now everything is working
Now i can hear the notifications for a new window as vlc is playing a hole directory with ogg files
So S U C C E S thanks to all who made phonon-backend-vlc for opensuse
susegebr it is starting to look like you asking and answering questions to yourself. That can be kind of odd. But at least it sounds like you found success.
Thank You,