kaffeine refuses to play anything

[Daniel]

Since I upgraded to karmic, kaffeine (1.0~pre2-0ubuntu1, amd64) doesn't play any media files anymore. I first noticed that (after successfully rescanning dvb-t channels) I couldn't watch dvb-t anymore: I got the message "no suitable device found" (maybe related to bug 448811?). Then I tried playing some media-files (mpeg, avi, etc.) on my harddisk - and nothing happened. kaffeine behaved as if I had not loaded anything, i.e. blank video-window, no sound. Finally I tried a DVD and got the same behaviour: nothing happened.

I should note that everything, i.e. dvb-t, dvd and files, work fine with gxine, vlc, totem.

Daniel

[mtron (mtron)]

kaffeine 1.0 uses phonon for playback. Please check that the xine backend for phonon is installed and the required xine plugins are available (libxine1-all-plugins package in ubuntu)

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

That isn't a bug. As mtron has said you need libxine1-all-plugins package, it's available on ubuntu's repository.

[Daniel (daniel-blaschke)]

I meanwhile found out that "phonon-backend-xine" had been missing. Now it works fine!

However, I still believe this is a bug: Kaffeine should depend on all required packages, and if some plugin is missing, an error message should appear. Without "phonon-backend-xine", the user does not get any feedback at all when Kaffeine fails to play media. (It should not be necessary to search internet forums for a solution...)

Daniel