Kaffeine (stable or SamRog's ppa one) & FLV Files

[kyonides]

For some reason I'm unable to play flv files with Kaffeine (with sound, not just terrible noise) but they do play smoothly on Mplayer or KMplayer or VLC. Does Kaffeine support FLV at all?

[Rog131]

Re: Kaffeine (stable or SamRog's ppa one) & FLV Files

Front/backends

The > Kaffeine is a frontend to the > Xine.


Container formats

The flv is a container format > Flash video.


Testing

Downloading two short clip that are using the .flv extension:

> The Last Airbender
> Palm Spring International ShortFest Opening Sequence

[img width=400 height=182]http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/2609/flv.png[/img]


The > Mediainfo is telling:

lastairbvfx6527.flv
Format : Flash Video

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@3.0

Audio
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No

palmsprings64-36.flv
Format : Flash Video

Video
Format : VP6

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : Intensity Stereo + MS Stereo

"The Last Airbender" is having poor sound, the "Palm Spring Opening Sequence" does have ok soud.

Tested with the Kaffeine 1.0 and with the Xine gui 0.99.6cvs /1/. So this seems to be a Xine/Xine settings problem.


Xine Settings

The Xine gui has all the xine settings. Earlier > Topic: Using OpenGL in Dragon Player:

...
In kdesettings/multimedia you can hardly set anything for the xine backend.
to configurate my xine backend I usually have to open xine player, make all my
configurations there and copy the one I need to
".config/kde-org/Phonon-Xine.xine.conf"
...

If you have time you could try to tune the Xine settings...


The fast solution

Install more than one media player (/backend). Earlier > Topic: Media Players.

The VLC (1.0.6) can play the flv's fine (at here) - but there are other problems.


Future

Maybe with the Maverick > Kaffeine 1.0 and Kubuntu



/1/ Package: xine-ui

Description: the xine video player, user interface
This is an X11 based GUI for the libxine video player library.
It provides xine, a skin based media player that can play all the
audio/video formats that libxine supports. Currently, this includes MPEG1/2,
some AVI and Quicktime files, some network streaming methods and disc based
media (VCD, SVCD, DVD). A more complete list can be found on
http://xinehq.de/index.php/features/.
.
Most DVDs on the market today are play-protected by the Content Scrambling
System (CSS). Xine does not provide any code to descramble those DVDs,
because of legal uncertainties. Have a look at
/usr/share/doc/xine-ui/README.Debian for more information!
Homepage: http://xinehq.de
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu