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martin77

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Registered: 2010-03-14

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MP3 and restricted codec support

I wonder if I can install gstreamer good, bad and ugly in a KDE4 environment as suggested by a forum member to get full multimedia capabilities or should I install another set of multimedia codecs.

May be this sounds dumb but back when I used Ubuntu/Kubuntu gstreamer were exclusive of GNOME use with KDE4 using xine and phonom. Thanks for any help.

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

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Re: MP3 and restricted codec support

Phonon is the KDE multimedia system, as you may know. If you do "pacman -Ss phonon" you will see that there are two backend packages, phonon-gstreamer and phonon-xine. You can even install both and configure which one to use through System Settings -> Multimedia -> Backend tab. I suppose if you choose the gstreamer backend and install the codec packages you mentioned then all apps which use Phonon will be able to use those codecs as well.

Personally, in KDE I use the xine backend, I do not remember having to do any extra configuration to get it working. It works perfectly fine with Amarok at least, in which I play mp3, ogg vorbis and m4a files without issues. Though for video I just use VLC so I have no idea if Dragon Player works well with it, but I don't see why it should be a problem. Well you should know everything you need to find out yourself now

Edit: I got curious so I tested it out - with the xine backend, Dragon Player will happily play my .mkv/H.264/AC3 video files, whereas the gstreamer backend won't. So from my (extremely superficial) testing I'd have to recommend trying the xine backend first.

Last edited by Bralkein (2010-03-26 04:16:23)

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Re: MP3 and restricted codec support

Why do you wonder if you haven't tried it yet? You won't know until you tried.

It's not like it will blow up your box from the minute you hit the button .

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wonder

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Re: MP3 and restricted codec support

why did you opened a new thread instead of discussion in the previous one?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93843

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Re: MP3 and restricted codec support

As per wonder's post, we'll continue in your old thread.

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