General Engine/Playback Questions
| 1. | Which sound engine should I use? |
Please refer to the Audio Engine Comparison. | |
| 2. | What version of ALSA should I use? |
If you output to ALSA, you should use the newest available version of ALSA possible! Old versions of ALSA have caused plenty of crashes, and have caused plenty of wrongly attributed crash-reports. | |
| 3. | I've installed GStreamer/xine/etc., but the relevant audio-engine won't show up. What gives? |
Amarok was probably compiled before you had xine and/or gstreamer installed, so the ./configure routine did not include them in the list of engines to be built. You will have to rebuild Amarok. | |
| 4. | But I did rebuild Amarok after installing gstreamer and/or xine, but the engine still does not show up. What happened? |
You most likely are using a distro that packages development libraries separately from the main library, so even though gstreamer is installed, Amarok cannot link to it because gstreamer-devel is not installed. The same issue exists for xine, you must install xine-devel if your distro splits packages in this fashion. Don't forget to rebuild Amarok after installing the devel packages. |
