On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:08 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Hi; > > Trying to play a .wmv here, using kaffiene, video is great, no audio. > In wandering around in the kaffiene menu's, I cannot find a place where > one can assign an audio output path arbitrarily, it has 'auto' and blank > for the options. > > I am also getting a 'can't bind info socket' from the dvb client. Render > engine in use is kaffiene-xine, and apparently cannot be changed because > of the above error. > > Does this tickle anyones memory? God yes, Gene. This one is a certified bitch. From what I have been able to do, which has had me hopping for well over a month, is to remove all ffmpeg, gstreamer-ffmpeg livna rpms and the libavcodecs. Then I went to freshrpms manually dnloading the ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.8.20070109.fc6.i386.rpm and the devel and libpostproc rpms too. The separate libavcodec rpm conflicts with either the devel or libpostproc, I ferget. I also removed all xine rpms and re-installed the 1.1.4-1 series from Freshrpms. THEN I got sound back. Finally. Bill Gates is laughing his ass off at us. Audio/Video is a deal breaker for most folks. Even after all of that, while your sound will now play just fine, there is some sort of compile error noted in xine about dropped frame rate being too high. vlc works just fine though. I just tried to install kaffiene on my machine just to test, but it conflicts with other installs... both kaffiene and kaffiene-devel rpms do. Go figure. It seems with all the different treatments among the repos that video and sound have a ways to go with Linux. Bill sleeps well at night while ole Ric is up until 4AM. Thanks to Claude, I finally got a handle on it. Now I'm putting xine and ffmpeg on the exclude list in yum so it isn't broken again. If anyone has a clue about the dropped frame-rate which shouldn't be happening on an AMD Athlon 3200+ running 32bit, an nVidia graphic card with 128 megs of memory and 2 gigs of main ram, I'd like to know. I'm sure Gates would rather I didn't find out, nor anyone else. Rahul, I know you're out there, please put this on your list of things to ponder with all of the repos. There's no faster way to sink this ship than to torpedo it with all of the assorted and various treatments and versions with regards to audio/video among the repos. Kudos to Freshrpms for delivering the real deal and appropriate versions ...that almost works perfectly. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
