https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497742
--- Comment #3 from David Jarvie <djar...@kde.org> --- KAlarm used to use Phonon to play audio, but there were always some crash reports, which eventually turned out to be due to Phonon not being thread safe. Canberra was then adopted in KAlarm version 3.8.0 (KDE Gear 24.02.1), but although this was more stable, it didn't recognise some recent audio file formats, so it was replaced by VLC in KAlarm version 3.9.0 (KDE Gear 24.08). Since KAlarm version 3.10 (KDE Gear 24.12), there has also been a build option to use MPV instead of VLC. Whether this is used in packages depends of course on each distribution. There is currently no way that a user can switch to MPV except by rebuilding KAlarm. However, your bug report raises the question of whether KAlarm should allow the user to choose, if the distribution builds both backends as options. I think that it could be useful to raise this issue with Fedora, since it does seem that the problem comes from a library rather than KAlarm itself. To avoid marking the bug as RESOLVED, I set the its status to NEEDSINFO. The only information needed is hopefully that the crash will have been fixed by some library update. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
