Kaffiene question re audio

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 19 February 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 18 February 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Hi;
>>>>
>>>> Trying to play a .wmv here, using kaffiene, video is great, no
>>>> audio. In wandering around in the kaffiene menu's, I cannot find a
>>>> place where one can assign an audio output path arbitrarily, it has
>>>> 'auto' and blank for the options.
>>>>
>>>> I am also getting a 'can't bind info socket' from the dvb client.
>>>> Render engine in use is kaffiene-xine, and apparently cannot be
>>>> changed because of the above error.
>>>
>>> install xine-lib-extras-nonfree from livna?  Does that help?
>>
>> I just swore off of livna, once you have a livna rpm installed, its
>> dependencies absolutely preclude updating anything else.  Is there not
>> an equ from freshrpms, dries, or atrpms?
>
>Yes, currently a serious pain in the arse.  I'd love to see this problem
>of repos providing similar/duplicate, but incompatible versions of the
>same (in this case, multimedia) packages resolved asap.
>
>-- Rex

It looks as if the smart package manager makes this enough easier to make 
it worthwhile.  I'm slowly cleaning my system up with it.

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