[nzlug] Xine on Fedora 8: does it work for anyone?

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Thu, 01-May-2008 at 02:54AM +1200 (give or take),
Simon Bridge wrote:

|> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:42 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:
|> > When I used Fedora Core 6, Xine worked perfectly.  Now that I've
|> > updated to Fedora 8,
|> Um - was this an "update" or did you *install* fedora 8?

Installed on another disk altogether.

|> 
|> >  at least something seems to be missing.  Sounds
|> > seems to work fine, but the video is very jerky, and the keyboard
|> > shortcuts don't have any effect.
|> What did you test it with?

Several DVDs and some flash files.  Even playing MP3s with that
"cosmic video" seems to be too demanding of Xine's video capabilities.
Though the sound works, it is rather faint.


|> Have you tried running from CLI?

Yes.  The files on the disk I use CLI.  For DVDs, I even tried
starting that from the CL which gives a bit of output, but that
doesn't tell me much.  Maybe that's because I don't know what it is
doing instead of taking 0 time to do what it says it's doing.

This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000013c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00004a5c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00005d9e
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0


libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x003c9c5d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x003cc2e9
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x003cc2ee
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0


|> 
|> How are you invoking Xine?

>From the menu, or from a shortcut as well as how I've described above.


I thought it might have to do with something missing in X, but the
same DVDs play properly with Kaffeine, and VLC (though the video with
VLC seems distinctly low res which might point back the way I was
thinking).

I could just use Kaffeine, but I do like Xine's flexibility.

Sound like anything to anyone?

TIA

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