Hi guys

I just installed Amarok 2. It looks great and works amazing fast with a big collection +80.000 songs

However there are two downlsides:
- I cant get sound to wok (not an Amrok issue as another KDE player Dragonplayer does not wok
Any help is highly appreciated
- When I start Amarok2 I have a weird ghost screen (some sort of a transparant layer)

Please help me out here.

Cheerz

Bloemetjesgordijn

No sound, that sucks!

What distro do you use?

The basic rigamarole is to switch to Phonon-Xine as your sound backend. Install it and use the sound section of systemsettings to switch.

As far as the "ghost" I have no idea what you're talking about! Can you make a screenshot?

I know is sucks big time.

The distro I use is Ubuntu 8.10 x64 (gnome)

I have installed "Phonon Xine 1.1.x backend" but no succes.

Weird thing is Dragon Play also fails to play.....

As for the screen dump (I cant attach it, its larger then 300k)  i am looking for a way to solve this...pls bear with me.

Done
http://www.dumpyourphoto.nl/photo.php?id=8787&hash=44704eb27ddcdf7c3ba0a88ed70f92e0

please help me ...

Bloemetjegordijn

Try installing "libxine1-ffmpeg".

Thx

I reinstalled Phonon Xine 1.1.x backend & libxine1-ffmpeg (restarted it)

And...No succes

In my multimediasystem selection I can only choose Alsa(default) and Pulse and OSS no phono?? (is this ok?)

As for the ghost screen, if I right click the amarok icon, the ghost screen dissapears ??

Cheerz
Bloemetjesgordijn

bump

Do you have MP3 support for Xine?

The ghost issue is something with your window manager I guess. No idea what thats about.

Ian Monroe wrote:Do you have MP3 support for Xine?

Yes I do

When I play mp3, flac (wav also but I have to double check that) I have no sound. This is for both Dragon Player & Amarok

If I am correct those are the two players using Phono

Playing mp3 or flac on Rythmbox or VLC (using ALSA) everthing is fine

But I dont want to use Rythmbox....me want Amarok

As fo the 'ghost screen', should I make a bug out of this....??

Cheerz

Bloemetjesgordijn

I have the same problem. The only diference is I use Kubuntu 8.10. All else is the same.

for sound try  sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-xine && sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer  this gave me sound . Ubuntu intrepid 8.10
I know the desired backend is xine but this seems broken atm .

Also, you may need to make sure your xine version is NOT 1.1.16 - 1.1.15 is ok.

dangle_wtf wrote:Also, you may need to make sure your xine version is NOT 1.1.16 - 1.1.15 is ok.

Indeed. Bug report for this:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180339