Ubuntu
kaffeine package

kaffeine ignores xine engine even if installed

Bug #22902 reported by seguso
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kaffeine (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

Hello.

I have installed kaffeine and kaffeine-gstreamer. Unfortunately, all movies were
unwatchable: they all played in slow-motion (whereas mplayer and xine were ok).
So I decided to switch kaffeine's backend engine from gstreamer to xine. I
marked kaffeine-xine for installation via synaptic.

1. when I clicked "apply", synaptic did not uninstall kaffeine-gstreamer. I am
not sure this is a bug. However, I uninstalled kaffeine-gstreamer by hand,
checking "mark for complete removal".

2. after the installation of kaffeine-xine was completed, kaffeine refuses to
start. I get a dialog "failed loading gstreamer_part". Kaffeine is still looking
for the gstreamer backend, though it should use xine.

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Seth Kinast (seth) wrote :

Confirming. I get the stop-motion bug, as well as an inability to unmute
Kaffeine, when using kaffeine-gstreamer. Additionally the first-run wizard runs
every time I start Kaffeine after I tried to install kaffeine-xine.

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Wayne Davison (wayned) wrote :

You don't need to uninstall kaffeine-gstreamer to use kaffeine-xine. I have
both installed, and the settings menu lets me choose between the two in the
first menu item (player engine). I recommend exiting kaffeine immediately after
making this menu change, since any setting changes appear to get lost if
kaffeine crashes (and I've seen it crash a lot when exiting, but not in normal use).

As for the setup-wizzard re-running, there's a work-around in bug #23287.

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Didier Raboud (odyx) wrote :

As Dapper ships no kaffeine-gstreamer support, this bug can be considered as "fix released". Please re-open if... ( i don't know...)

Changed in kaffeine:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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sk0rp10 (matteo-andreozzi) wrote :

Please reopen:

In feisty kaffeine doesn't let me to choose player engine, which is always mplayer even if kaffeine-xine is installed.

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Anthony Mercatante (tonio) wrote :

Confirmed, the kpart list is empty with version 0.8.1 on feisty.

Changed in kaffeine:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Anthony Mercatante (tonio) wrote :

Latest upload closes this issue.

Changed in kaffeine:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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