I've never used kaffeine before since I generally use totem but I've been messing around with it lately on suse 10.1 and it's proving pretty useless at the moment.
When I play videos they are jumpy and sound is really choppy.
It's even worse with audio cd's, if I insert a disc and select "play with kaffeine" nothing appears to happen thenabout 10 minutes later I get a pop-up informing me kaffeine has no plugin to handle this type of file.
If I open kaffeine and select the audio cd tab then select play audio cd it just crashes.
kaffeine 0.8.1-0.pm1@686

I think your problem has been discussed several times already.

SuSE due to patent problems, cannot play all files by default.

Try the following link:

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en...n+suse&spell=1

Not quite.
Kaffeine does play all movie files, they are just jerky.
It also plays mp3 files just fine if they are already on the hard drive, I just have a problem with it playing cd's.

<EDIT>
Now the thing won't even start up at all. I've tried removing all kaffeine stuff from my .kde directory and also tried removing, reinstalling and installing the i586 version (I had i686 previously).
I've launched it from konsole and it shows no errors at all, it just never starts up.

have you updated all of your packages?

Why not install the packages from YaST?

I'm not sure what you mean by install the packages from yast.
I installed them via smart, I have the same suse yast repos set up in smart along guru, packman kde extra etc and have tried every version of kaffeine in the repos with the same results.

Now, just to add to it's wierd behavior, it's still not starting up at all now but if I browse to a video file in konqueror and select "preview in kaffeine" the video plays fine without jumping and the sound is playing normally. Also, if I browse the cd in konqueror and select "preview in kaffeine" it plays everything on the cd just fine.

<EDIT>
It's suddenly starting up again now even though I haven't changed anything so here is the current status.
- If I open kaffeine from kmenu and browse to a video file it's jumping and sound is dodgy.
- If I open it from kmenu and browse to a file on the cd it crashes.
- If I select the audio cd tab and try to play an audio cd it crashes.
- If kaffeine is closed and I browse to a movie file in konqueror and select preview in kaffeine it plays perfectly, sound and all.
- If I browse to a file on the audio cd in konqueror and select preview in kaffeine it plays perfectly.
- If I insert an audio cd and select play with kaffeine from the dialogue kaffeine still doesn't start up and I get the plugin error about 10 minutes later.

Thanks! This link looked very good.

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~pirisisi/tips/Linux/dvdplay/