Hi Mathias, thanks for your message.
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:33:51 +0200 Mathias Panzenböck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/28/2011 09:58 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was a happy user of Amarok 1.4.x, but since Amarok 2.x, I've been getting > > a lot of compatibility problems with it, which made it use painful. As a > > result, I've been mostly using the VLC player recently, which isn't > > perfect, but is less quirky. > > > > What I need from Amarok is to have a Phonon backend that will: > > > > 1. Play all files I throw at it > > - .mp3, .ogg, .flv, .mp4, .mod/.s3m/.xm/.it, .avi, etc. Phonon-gstreamer is > > unable to play .mp4 files due to this bug - > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267319 - and > > Phonon-VLC was much more quirky in this respect last time I tried. > > The tracker file types .mod/.s3m/.xm/.it are actually supported by VLC and > thus by Phonon-VLC. The Phonon-VLC developers just didn't know and so they > did not include them in the list of supported files, which caused Amarok to > refuse to play them. I wrote a bugreport and so they where simply added. > However, I forgot .mod in the bugreport, so I just wrote a new one just > for .mod: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280993 > > So the next Phonon-VLC version will support tracker files. Nice, thanks for the report. In addition to ".mod" files, it seems that ".flv" files are not supported by Amarok when using the Phonon-VLC backend. > > If you are still using KDE 4.6 you can't use a recent Phonon-VLC (API > changes). But because the fix for these file formats is trivial I patched the > last Phonon-VLC version compatible with KDE 4.6: > https://github.com/panzi/phonon-vlc/tree/module_files_for_kde_4.6 > Thanks! But I am using KDE-4.7.x. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Apple Inc. is Evil - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/ And truth be told, I miss you. And truth be told, I’m lying. — The All American Rejects, “Gives You Hell” Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
