Hi there, What other engine are available and recommended for amarok? Thanks Chadley
What other engine are available and recommended for amarok?
What ones do you have already? There are several... probably the most common are: - The Helix engine shipped with SUSE 10 and enabled by default - The Xine engine - The GStreamer engine. ... and several others. Personally, I prefer the GStreamer engine. It has it's benefits and it's drawbacks - like having to hunt around a little for the instructions on how to get it playing MP3s (my personal audio collection is 90% OGG, but there are still some MP3s laying about.). The instructions for this are on the Amarok website. C.
On Monday 06 March 2006 03:02 am, Clayton wrote:
What other engine are available and recommended for amarok?
What ones do you have already? There are several... probably the most common are: - The Helix engine shipped with SUSE 10 and enabled by default - The Xine engine - The GStreamer engine. ... and several others.
Personally, I prefer the GStreamer engine. It has it's benefits and it's drawbacks - like having to hunt around a little for the instructions on how to get it playing MP3s (my personal audio collection is 90% OGG, but there are still some MP3s laying about.). The instructions for this are on the Amarok website.
Just out of curiosity, why is it you like GStreamer over - say - Helix or Xine? I've been happy with Xine on my upgraded Amarok (1.4 b1) and really wasn't unhappy with Helix before. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community
Just out of curiosity, why is it you like GStreamer over - say - Helix or Xine?
I've been happy with Xine on my upgraded Amarok (1.4 b1) and really wasn't unhappy with Helix before.
To tell the truth... I'm not really sure :-) Helix worked fine for me. I only stopped using Helix because the latest builds of Amarok 1.4 on apt were not built with Helix support enabled. I tried using Xine and it would not play MP3s. A friend encountered the exact same thing. Helix was not included... and Xine wouldn't work with MP3s (so I know it wasn't just me). GStreamer worked... after I installed mad and gstreamer-mad, and then ran the gst updater. Personally... I'd be fine sticking with Helix if it was included in the Guru (or other) builds of Amarok. C
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Chadley Wilson
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Clayton
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