Hi all.
I installed an amaroK 1.1.1 (compiled it from source) and there is no aRTS effects anymore, when i click on "FX" button it says "Effects are not available with this engine." I believe i did something wrong because on previous version it worked fine, but what?

...are you still using the arts engine?

i have always used the arts engine and i have never seen the effects option enabled.

teh arts engine is not longer under development, so I guess thats why.
Probably better to use the gstreamer engine, you can set it to go to arts.

Caveman

z-vet wrote:

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I installed an amaroK 1.1.1 (compiled it from source) and there is no aRTS effects anymore, when i click on "FX" button it says "Effects are not available with this engine."

The aRts-effects were disabled for stability reasons mainly. We got many bug reports about broken effects that made amaroK crash, and we got fed up with reports on stuff we can't influence. Adding to that, most of the effects are not very well done, so the whole feature appeared rather useless.

I think the number one effect people want to use is an Equalizer. In amaroK CVS we have implemented an internal Equalizer plugin for GStreamer, which will probably also be ported to xine-engine. Check it out, it works quite nicely.

aRts-engine is currently almost unmaintained; if we do not find a new maintainer for it we might disabled it entirely in 1.2.

Ok, i've got an answers. Thanks for replies, guys.