Hi All,

I wanted to watch movies which are in Divx, Avi, MPEG & MPG format in Linux - therefore i installed - Xine

1) First it was not ready to install Xine - gave me an error therefore...gott the xine libraries
2) Install that

rpm -ivh --nodeps xine-lib-1.0.0-0.2.rc1.fr.src.rpm

3) Then install xine like so

rpm -ivh --nodeps xine-0.9.22-1.fr.i386.rpm

These where the things happened:

[root@localhost umesh]# rpm -ivh --nodeps xine-lib-1.0.0-0.2.rc1.fr.src.rpm
warning: xine-lib-1.0.0-0.2.rc1.fr.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
warning: user machbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group machbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user machbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group machbuild does not exist - using root
1:xine-lib ########################################### [100%]

[root@localhost umesh]# rpm -ivh --nodeps xine-0.9.22-1.fr.i386.rpm
warning: xine-0.9.22-1.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:xine

Now I can play Xine but it works only for 30-40 secs then either it hangs...or i get logged off from KDE...what must be wrong?

BTW when i use Knoppix 3.X LIve CD and play Xine it works like a charm...what must be wrong then in RedHat Linux 9?

Please help! Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Umesh

download the latest source of each and build them yourself, if you cannot find rpm's specific for you distro. mplayer is a little better.

Perhaps you shouldn't skip rpms dependancy check. It is there for a reason. Are you certian you have all of xine's dependancies and that they are all at the required version in RH9?

Here is what i get when i try playing xine:

[root@localhost root]# xine -V XShm
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.22.
(c) 2000-2003 The xine Team.
Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-rc0a)
Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-rc1).
XServer Vendor: The XFree86 Project, Inc. Release: 40300000,
Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,
Available Screen(s): 1, using 0
Depth: 24.
XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.
-[ xiTK version 0.10.5 [XMB]]-
-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-
-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-
Display is not using Xinerama.
main: probing <oss> audio output plugin
audio_oss_out: opening audio device /dev/dsp failed:
Device or resource busy
load_plugins: failed to load audio output plugin <oss>
main: probing <arts> audio output plugin
audio_arts_out: init class
audio_arts_out: open_plugin called
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
audio_arts_out: arts_init failed: can't connect to aRts soundserver
load_plugins: failed to load audio output plugin <arts>
main: probing <esd> audio output plugin
audio_esd_out: connecting to esd server...
audio_esd_out: can't connect to <default> ESD server: Broken pipe
load_plugins: failed to load audio output plugin <esd>
main: skipping <none> audio output plugin from auto-probe
main: audio driver probing failed => no audio output
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
video_out_xshm: tried to set unsupported property 2

any help?

use mplayer

See when i use Knoppix 3.X Live CD and play Xine it works like a charm...it only doesnot work with RedHat Linux 9 therefore thats the reason more I need to make it work!!!

What the heck! some one must have an answer to this any Linux Guru out there?

when you installed with the --nodeps option, xine installed without telling you the other libraries it needed for xine to work properly. there's probably a dozen dependancies you're missing, and libraries that the other libraries need.
you can find out some of them with
/# which xine
/usr/local/bin/xine
/# ldd /usr/local/bin/xine
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40026000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40032000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4003c000)
libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40053000)
libxineutils.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxineutils.so.0 (0x4007d000)
libxine.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxine.so.0 (0x40089000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x400a8000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x400b7000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40108000)
libXtst.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0x4010b000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40110000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401b5000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401d9000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4030e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


you should come up with some stuff missing.
if would be easier if you uninstalled xine and libxine, and let rpm tell you what you needed, and get that stuff.

use vlc

http://www.videolan.org/

or mplayer

www.mplayerhq.hu

both r good but i like mplayer

just download all the rpm of vlc or mplayer

and install it by rpm -i *.rpm

enjoy

divx work's more smoothly in linux than windows
do not forget to install u r agp driver before this