Amarok won't play sound

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 18:18 -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 12/31/2009 05:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > F12 fully uodated, including KDE 4.3.4.
> >
> > Sound from mplayer, Flash video etc. all works, but Amarok doesn't. In
> > fact if I play a track the cursor doesn't even advance. The Settings
> > dialogue hasn't been touched since installation. The Sound Config button
> > (which just calls the System Settings panel) works, including the Test
> > button. Sound is configured for PA. The backend is Xine.
> >
> > The console shows a bunch of "QPainter::begin: Cannot paint on a null
> > pixmap" messages, if that matters.
> >
> 
> mp3 or ogg files ?

I should have mentioned it was MP3, sorry.

> If mp3 make sure you have this rpm installed:
> 
> xine-lib-extras-freeworld

Thanks, that did it. The most obscure thing about this is that Amarok
gives no indication of any problem. In fact it even says it's playing
the file, despite the fact the progress cursor doesn't move. Ridiculous.

poc