Making xine default (or something).

[willow]

Hello.

I was here before because I had Kubuntu 5.10 working, but with no sound. I changed the soundcard (from Emu 0404 to M-Audio 2496), now I have sound but its not working properly. I initially had amaroK with gstreamer, but mp3 playback was choppy and garbled, so I changed it to xine, which seems much better, except some slight skipping at the beginning of each track. But I can't get either Kaffeine or vlc to work, they both have garbled sound, then crash. xine doesn't appear as an option in Kaffeine, and I can't find any dialogue in vlc to set the engine. Video playback seems to be OK.

I'm not completely stupid.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[Rog131]

Re: Making xine default (or something).

By default Kaffeine uses xine as backend. Look: http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/inde...features&id=13
(Kaffeine = Xine)

VLC is the engine itself (as xine). So you can't change it. (+ VLC don't need external codecs. Look: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html)

Willow: "But I can't get either Kaffeine or vlc to work, they both have garbled sound, then crash. "
Start program (Kaffeine/VLC) in konsole -> you get error messages (or not )

[willow]

Re: Making xine default (or something).

By default Kaffeine uses xine as backend. Look: http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/inde...features&id=13
(Kaffeine = Xine)

Thats rather odd, because I'm sure the first time I tried to use it it gave me a gstreamer error and said the soundcard (or something) was already in use. Anyway, I seem to have broken it completely now, and it generally seems like Kubuntu just doesn't like me. I might wait till 6.04. Thanks for your help.