Status of Kaffeine?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 21 13:53:28 UTC 2009


On Saturday 21 February 2009 13:22:22 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:37 +0100, Martin Kho wrote:
> [...]
>
> > ...and, there is another one: SMPlayer. All are using MPlayer as the
> > backend. I don't know which one is the best. I've tried them all, but I
> > had problems with MPlayer, so none worked for me. Can be Pulseaudio the
> > big trouble maker? (see Gilboa's post)
>
> I've tried mplayer, kplayer, vlc, dragon and kaffeine. I have PA
> configured for all my sound, using the Xine backend. 

PA runs without causing any problem on both the Mandriva laptop and the F10 
netbook.

> Mplayer and kplayer
> work perfectly (as does Amarok for audio). Kaffeine, dragon and vlc all
> stutter.
>
Strange, isn't it?  DragonPlayer is the only video player I've got working 
smoothly.  Exactly the oppostie of yours.

> mplayer-1.0-0.103.20080903svn.fc10.x86_64
> kplayer-0.7.0-1.20081211cvs.fc10.x86_64
> kaffeine-0.8.7-3.fc10.x86_64
> kdemultimedia-4.2.0-1.fc10.1.x86_64 (for dragon)
> vlc-0.9.8a-1.fc10.x86_64
>
> Anyone see a pattern?
>
I'm using 32-bit - so this is not like-for-like, and I don't know how 
significant that is.

Anne
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