Problems with Kaffeine

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I noticed last night that the new (ported to Qt 5 and VLC based) Kaffeine has a few issues.

  1. vdpau acceleration support was working for file playback. This is good! However, I discovered that the stop button doesn’t work when a file is playing. This is bad :stuck_out_tongue:

  2. vdpau acceleration support was NOT working for DVB viewing. Boooo.

  3. Changing channels while watching TV sometimes results in a black screen though, sound is heard.

  4. Some other stuff, but I don’t recall now

I saw that a 2.0.5 version is in the pipeline but didn’t look at the specific change commits. Hopefully performance issues will get ironed out shortly.

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Well, the KDE4 and Xine based version 1.2.2 is still in the standard repos.

Can’t speak of VDPAU (my graphics card doesn’t support it), but I haven’t noticed the “black screen” problem AFAICR.
AudioCD playback is broken currently though, and you are right, the stop button stays disabled when playing a file (I just tried).
You may want to file a bug report at http://bugs.kde.org about that.

Regarding vdpau, check if libvdpau_va_gl1 is installed and remove it.
That redirects VDPAU to VA-API.
But you probably know that anyway… (and it would also affect playback of files)

I don’t think 2.0.5 has anything that would fix your problems.
(I do have 2.0.5 installed here, so the stop button is definitely not fixed)

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I stand corrected, it looks like it is, albeit

$ kaffeine
20-11-16 18:55:29.527 [Info    ] Using built-in dvb device manager
20-11-16 18:55:32.116 [Info    ] Found dvb device : LG Electronics LGDT3305 VSB/QAM Frontend
[00007fdb740968f8] avcodec decoder: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 for hardware decoding.
[00007fdb54023988] deinterlace filter error: unsupported chroma VDV0

A quick google turns up: Deinterlacing 1080i video with vdpau hardware decoding - The VideoLAN Forums

Will have to look into it later

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I’ve locked kaffeine, but it looks like its 2.0.5 that is now being offered in the snapshot

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Yes, somebody (who is not part of the KDE team) submitted a pointless change to kaffeine to the devel project, which caused the new version to be submitted to Factory/Tumbleweed automatically too.

I’ve prepared a kaffeine4 package though (with 1.2.2), which I will submit to KDE:Extra, so you should soon be able to install it from there at least.

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Ahh, a chink in the armour of the commit process has been exposed lol!

I’ve prepared a kaffeine4 package though (with 1.2.2), which I will submit to KDE:Extra, so you should soon be able to install it from there at least
Good man … as the barbarians are already assembling at the gate: [opensuse-kde] kaffeine missing a dependency to vlc? - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists