Hello Guys,

When I'm trying to play any kind of song, there is a strange problem with my Amarok installation. There is no sound and the progress bar does not move on.
System information: Mandriva 2009 cooker, RC2 and standard Amarok rpm package.

The old 1.4.10 plays all music without any problems on this system. Furthermore I was using Amarok on Mandriva cooker beta 2 and it worked fine.

I do not see any xine engine for this new release in the rpm list, only for the old kde3 - has it something to do with my problem? How can I solve or at least track this issue

Any support would be very appreciated.
Regards
Beny

Amarok 2 uses Phonon for audio, which is a KDE abstraction library that can use xine, GStreamer, etc as backends.

Mandriva by default uses a GStreamer backend, so you need to make sure that the right codecs for it are installed.

Thank you for a quick and supportive response!

That's what I have installed:

rpm -qa | grep phonon

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[root@localhost plugins]#
lib64phononexperimental4-4.2.0-13mdv2009.0
lib64phonon4-4.2.0-12mdv2009.0
phonon-4.2-0.814039.2mdv2009.0
phonon-gstreamer-4.2.0-12mdv2009.0
phonon-devel-4.2.0-12mdv2009.0


rpm -qa | grep gstreamer

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gstreamer0.10-xvid-0.10.8-3plf2009.0
lib64baconvideowidget-gstreamer0-2.24.1-1mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-mms-0.10.8-3plf2009.0
lib64gstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0.10.20-2mdv2009.0
totem-gstreamer-2.24.1-1mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-speex-0.10.10-2mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-lame-0.10.9-1plf2009.0
lib64gstreamer0.10_0.10-0.10.20-3mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-python-0.10.12-1mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-moodbar-0.1.2-4mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-a52dec-0.10.9-1plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-0.10.10-2mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-tools-0.10.20-3mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-0.10.20-2mdv2009.0
kaffeine-engine-gstreamer-0.8.7-1plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-faad-0.10.8-3plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-pulse-0.10.10-2mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-xing-0.10.2-1plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-dts-0.10.8-3plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-mpeg-0.10.9-1plf2009.0
phonon-gstreamer-4.2.0-12mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-cdio-0.10.9-1plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-flac-0.10.10-2mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-soup-0.10.10-2mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-mpeg2enc-0.10.8-3plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-faac-0.10.8-3plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-x264-0.10.8-3plf2009.0


What is still missing, any idea?

Regards
B.

An UPDATE:

I added following packages:
phonon-xine-4.1.2-3mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-0.10.9-1plf2009.0
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-0.10.10-2mdv2009.0
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-0.10.5-2mdv2009.0

and finally updated:
phonon-gstreamer-4.2.0-13mdv2009.0

Now it works as designed Thanks a lot for you help.
Amarok - great job.

Regards
Beny

You might be missing a mp3 plugin. Try to install gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly too. Also Mandriva uses a special licensed MP3 codec for GStreamer, the name of which escapes me. But you should be able to google that or ask in their forums.

Thanks again, I was updating my previous post as you had answered!
I wish I had such a great support at other forums.

Have a nice evening.
B.