Bug 455745

Summary:	Unable to play Podigee Podcasts on Windows
Product:	[Applications] kasts	Reporter:	usucra
Component:	general	Assignee:	bart
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description usucra 2022-06-21 19:14:20 UTC

Everytime I try to play a Podcast from Podigee.io on my Windows machine (Tried around 4-5 different ones for testing) it just errors out with the Error Code: 8 Invalid Media. All of the tested Podcasts played fine on my Linux machnines (Manjaro, Kasts-git package). The raw files played fine in VLC aswell but they show up as MPEG Audio layer 1/2 (mpga) instead of the usual MP3 format (ffmpeg seems to report them as normal layer 3 files though I'm not confident on this) so this may be part of the Issue

Comment 1 bart 2022-06-21 20:19:04 UTC

Thanks for reporting.
I've noticed this myself as well: about half of my podcasts will not play on windows, while they play fine in linux.

The difference is due to Kasts using the standard qt multimedia player as backend.  On linux this is gstreamer, and on windows this is either windowsmediafoundation or directshow.  I'm not sure which one is used by default.  Either way, they seem to be lacking a lot of "common" codecs.  I'm not an expert on windows, but I think I've read that you can install those codecs manually and then they should be picked up by the backend.  But, again, I've never tried this myself.

Comment 2 usucra 2022-06-21 20:39:43 UTC

(In reply to bart from comment #1)
> Thanks for reporting.
> I've noticed this myself as well: about half of my podcasts will not play on
> windows, while they play fine in linux.
> 
> The difference is due to Kasts using the standard qt multimedia player as
> backend.  On linux this is gstreamer, and on windows this is either
> windowsmediafoundation or directshow.  I'm not sure which one is used by
> default.  Either way, they seem to be lacking a lot of "common" codecs.  I'm
> not an expert on windows, but I think I've read that you can install those
> codecs manually and then they should be picked up by the backend.  But,
> again, I've never tried this myself.

Thanks for the fast response, the K-Lite Codec pack from codecguide.com did the trick every Podcast is playing correctly now

Comment 3 bart 2022-06-21 21:07:31 UTC

> Thanks for the fast response, the K-Lite Codec pack from codecguide.com did
> the trick every Podcast is playing correctly now

Oh, wow, so that trick actually works!  That's good to know.
Thanks for checking and providing the feedback.