To start, I know that my current version is the RC and not final but if this is only a local problem on my machine I would like to try and fix it.

The subject pretty much explains it no KDE application I have tried (Kaffiene, Amarok, Dragon ...) can play an ogg file. VLC can however play the files fine. I used Konqueror to create these files on my computer.

So for the setup of my system. I am using Xine as my backend and have also tried with GStreamer. No luck with either. I have followed some forums about Pulse and other configuration to no help.

I am on OpenSUSE 11.1. Does anybody think I would gain anything from downloading Xine from the project website and compiling it for my computer.

If this is solved somewhere else, please point me to it. I have been searching this forum and other areas and not found many results. Any help is greatly appreciated. If this is an honest bug I would be more than happy to provide any output from any program. So far all they have told me in Xine is that "Xine is trying to seek behind the end of the datastream and Gstreamer is less informative.

Does a player that uses Xine directly or GStreamer directly work correctly? Also, how are you producing the OGG files? Did you convert from another format they previously were in using a Service Menus based converter?

jonrwads wrote:So far all they have told me in Xine is that "Xine is trying to seek behind the end of the datastream and Gstreamer is less informative.

I got that error message when I upgraded to RC2 (although for me oggs were the only ones that would play). The solution I found was:

rm -rf ~/.xine (back it up fist just in case).

Then logging out and in again. The .xine directory is recreated, or was for me anyway. I'm not sure what's stored in the one and only cache file that is there but it fixed the problem for me anyway.

Note: I don't know if it makes any difference but I've removed everything pulseaudio related on my 11.1 installation.

Thank you everyone for you help. I have this now playing however I don't know which of the steps that I did solved it. I decided that it was actually a Xine problem because MPlayer would play the files and XineUI would not. Looking in the error log of XineUI, I noticed that it said it did not have the codec installed. I then searched that and I go two suggestions; download the includes (devel packages) and another was to compile Xine from source. I did both and it started to be able to play them.

The next time Xine gets updated in the repository I will know if it was just the devel files or if it was the libxine1 that is in the repositories.

Again thanks for your help.