Kaffeine problem - DVB radio and audio CDs
I have a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T USB digital terrestrial TV stick. It works fine on a desktop PC under both XP Home and Ubuntu Feisty 64-bit (using Kaffeine), and on a laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400 with ATI graphics) using XP Media Center Edition. If I try to use it in Feisty 32-bit (again with Kaffeine) on the Dell, it works fine with TV stations, but if I try to use a radio station, Kaffeine crashes.
The same thing happens if I try to play audio CDs using Kaffeine, but audio CDs play OK using Sound Juicer. It looks as if there is a problem where there is audio but no video. Messages from tuning to BBC FOUR, then BBC NEWS 24, then attempting to tune to BBC Radio 3 (all work fine except the radio station) are: Code:
Tuning to: BBC FOUR / autocount: 0 Code:
Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... |
Kaffeine eventually stopped working altogether - I presume an upgrade to something did it. I have finally found a solution though (sort of)...
I installed xserver-xgl. Kaffeine (and the underlying Xine engine) now work normally. The downside is a large increase in CPU usage. Some other things may also not work - Google Earth for instance. To disable Xgl after you install it, create directory xserver-xgl under the .config directory in your home directory (unless it already exists), then create an empty file called disable in this directory, and reboot. To enable Xgl, rename the file to enable and reboot. |
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