https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491322
Tuomas Nurmi <tuo...@norsumanageri.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|--- |FIXED
Status|REPORTED |RESOLVED
--- Comment #6 from Tuomas Nurmi <tuo...@norsumanageri.org> ---
Okay, great to hear you managed to get playback working!
As to why the gstreamer plugins were required; I guess it's a long story:
ffmpeg is indeed a dependency, but it isn't actually used for playback, only
for some song fingerprinting / something like that. For playback, Phonon is
used, the corresponding dependency in PKGBUILD listing being phonon-qt5. There
are multiple possible backends for Phonon, so I guess the package manager just
requires that one of them is installed, and in your case it was
phonon-gstreamer, which uses gstreamer (and its codecs) for playback.
(Phonon-gstreamer has been unmaintained for some years now, but it still works
somewhat ok. Another backend option is phonon-vlc)
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