No sound/audio in KDE4 (SOLVED)

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Feb 9 16:48:07 PST 2010


On Feb 9, 2010, at 13:35, Daniel Simon wrote:

> The standard install of KDE4 through MacPorts uses Qt's phonon system, which in turn uses the native QuickTime as a backend.  As it states at http://mac.kde.org/?id=download , if QuickTime can't play it, phonon can't play it.
> 
> The solution is to install the Xiph (ogg) QuickTime component (http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/) to allow QuickTime to play ogg files.  Installing Perian (http://perian.org/) wouldn't hurt, either.
> 
> There should be a note during the port install process saying that this step is necessary since much of KDE's audio is in ogg format.

Could you please file a ticket requesting this change?



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