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Old 07-22-2005, 06:55 AM   #1
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Xine not working in Slackware 10.1


Hi,


I recently upgraded to slackware 10.1, now everytime I run Xine, It gets stuck on the splash screen, It used to work flawlessly in Slackware 10.0?

It gives no errors, even when I run it from the shell.
 
Old 07-22-2005, 11:51 PM   #2
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Make sure that your video card driver is set properly in /etc/X/xorg.conf
After installing Slackware on my machine the driver was set to vesa instead of r128 for my ATI Rage 128 card.
 
Old 07-23-2005, 12:04 AM   #3
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What's the output from xine-check? (run it in an x-term as regular user)
 
Old 07-23-2005, 12:42 AM   #4
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have you read the DOC/HTML/en/install.html ?? I installed XINE here yesterday and everything goes fine, but I have my video card driver right seted.
 
Old 07-23-2005, 01:16 AM   #5
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Xine-check output:

Code:
 [ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
         That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling
         in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
         X server will help here.
         If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
         http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
         press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
         That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling
         in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
         X server will help here.
         If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
         http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
         press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...
         XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This
         extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space
         conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost.
         If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all
         kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, though...
         press <enter> to continue...
Now the site
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
doesnt exist

If upgrading Xine brings new problems, why on earth did they release a new version, when the old one was working perfectly, sure they should add functionality, but it should also be easy to install and use, not make the user end up making changes in various configuration files, which may eventually break other apps!!
 
Old 07-23-2005, 11:42 AM   #6
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changing your X driver to one that's accelerated should improve things across the board. That's really what xine-check is telling you to do.

That said, Xine should be able to open and play DVDs even without an accelerated X server.


In order to change the X over, though, change your default runlevel back to 3. Just in case something breaks while you're testing it, you don't want to find yourself with an unusable configuration.

That done, go to /etc/X11 and rename xorg.conf to something like xorg.conf-backup, and run xorgconfig. Choose the right built-in driver for your video card (or if you have an ATI or NVidia card, go to the vendor website and download the driver first, then follow their instructions to install). Test it with startx and make sure everything's working before you change back to RL4 by default.
 
Old 07-24-2005, 03:23 AM   #7
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I upgraded my XOrG, new Xine works well.

Well my 3d performance is up aswell, with the new Xorg, glxgears is doing 1300 FPS ven without the ATI drivers installed,
 
Old 07-24-2005, 03:23 AM   #8
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