I second to that. Kaffeine is one of the most frustrating packages I came 
across under Linux: it would be such a nice piece of software if it only 
worked. The last version that was in a relatively good shape was 0.6.x. Since 
then it is really so crappy. And this this not the gstreamer's fault - Kaffeine 
crashes and freezes even with the default Xine engine vy itself. 

I think Kaffeine is undermaintained and needs more help and developers, maybe 
an attention of the KDE project itself. There are outstanding bugs which no one 
cares about for hundreds of days which makes me think that Kaffeine becomes 
abandoned by its maintainers. This has forced me to fall back to KPlayer which 
is not that nice but at least works with some tweaking in obscure mplayer.conf 
files (to get subtitles with right fonts and placement in the blackband). 

Good luck Kaffeine, I'll try again in a year or so :-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matej Cepl
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:52 AM
> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Kaffeine
> 
> Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> > In this case it seems kaffeine is being held back, because 
> gstreamer 
> > is buggy. I think this is ridiculous. Kaffeine was made for 
> xine. Use 
> > that and dump gstreamer.
> 
> Actually, kaffeine has a plenty of bugs of his own -- see 
> http://bugs.debian.org/kaffeine
> 
> Matej
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