(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #7) > (In reply to Patrick Finie from comment #6) > > Oddly Dolphin crashed when trying to connect to a network share. here is > > the bug report. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388445 > > That crash is also in gstreamer/phonon-gstreamer. > > Again, installing phonon4qt5-backend-vlc should fix those crashes I suppose. > > As first thing you should probably check your gstreamer installation. > Maybe you added some extra repo (multimedia:libs e.g.) and have a mix of > packages with different versions? > > rpm -qa | grep gstreamer > > And as I already asked: do other (non-KDE) applications using gstreamer > work, totem e.g.? VLC, Audacious, openshot, davinchi resolve, steam, audacity, chrome all work. I have had totem bite me so many times that i never install it. Will post an update if the vlc phonon fixes it, i do nont have a positive feeling about it as the last time i used the vlc phonon backend it caused massive instability to the point i was told to uninstall it. Let see if things work now.