Audio In Kubuntu

[Evan Leibovitch]

Scott Elcomb wrote:

> Never actually used Kaffeine...  Any chance it's a Codec issue?
>
Kaffeine is just a nice KDE front for the xine engine. If it won't play 
under xine, it won't play under Kaffeine.

I have certainly not spent a lot of time playing with this, however I 
have noted a few things in using this stuff (YMMV):

- Both Kaffeine and Amarok (the KDE audio player) are by default 
persistent; they'll stay in the system bar even when closed, until 
explicitly quit. If Amarok is in the system tray it will 'claim' the 
audio output, so Kaffeine will show video but no sound. Quitting Amarok 
fixes this problem, though Kaffeine may need to be restarted to get it 
to 'reclaim' the audio out.

- I have encountered some files for which the media player can match the 
video codec but not the audio, resulting in a silent movie. They're not 
that frequent, but they do happen; personally I've found this most 
common in Quicktime format (.mov) files.

- Evan

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