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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