Just to be precise: your complaints are about Phonon and its backends, so please address this to the phonon developpers. The Amarok-devel@ list is not the correct place for that.
Regards, Myriam On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 15:34, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
