Re: audio_decoder: no plugin available to handle 'AC3'

Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Dean may or may not have written...
> 
>> I am getting the above error message trying to play DVDs.  Xine used to
>> work for me and I'm not sure what I changed.
> [snip]
>> I have tried manually setting the audio output with -A to alsa, oss and
>> arts (I am running KDE).  None of them play sound.  Amarok plays, so I know
>> sound is working.
> 
>> What happened to my AC3 plugin?
> 
> The usual cause of this kind of thing is a broken catalog.cache.
> 
>   $ mv ~/.xine/catalog.cache ~/.xine/catalog.cache~
> 
> If that works, then both files named in that command are of interest and may
> be of help in fixing this problem. (Running any xine-lib front end will cause
> catalog.cache to be recreated.)

Hi Darren,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I moved catalog.cache out of the way but that did not fix the problem.  I then
moved my entire .xine directory out of the way with no success.

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