Kaffiene won't play videos

[marqueemark]

I know I went through this once before with amarok, after updating to ocelot with a fresh install I installed kaffiene but it will not play videos...avi, mkv etc...I know its a simple matter to install the codecs...are they called codecs in linux? anyway i just forget how to get them, a little push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated

[dibl]

Re: Kaffiene won't play videos

Kaffeine has a hard dependency on xine, and the phonon-xine package is not being maintained: http://wm161.net/2011/09/08/phonon-x...non-gstreamer/

You might want to try vlc or another media player.

Other codec issues are covered here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

[marqueemark]

Re: Kaffiene won't play videos

Yeah right on, I installed VLC, I just remember having VLC on windows ages ago and not liking it, but so far I like the way everything is set up in it, not sure what it was that bothered me before. Thanks for the advice, too bad kaffeine is no longer supported, I always liked it.

[Snowhog]

Re: Kaffiene won't play videos

Kaffeine is still supported, although Dragon Player is the 'default' video player now. I had problems getting Dragon Player to read/play commercial DVD's in 11.10 (was not a problem in earlier releases of Kubuntu) so I installed Kaffeine, and after installing the necessary non-free packages (see Medibuntu) all was good.

[blobfish]

Re: Kaffiene won't play videos

too bad kaffeine is no longer supported, I always liked it.

I was always a fan of kaffeine also. Right now I am on the smplayer bandwagon as I like the interface better than vlc. Might want to check it out.

[SteveRiley]

Re: Kaffiene won't play videos

Kaffiene will work with other backends, including Gstreamer -- so I've read, at least. All we need is for the package maintainer to remove the hard dependency...