This sounds straight out of Windows, so I thought I'd see if anyone else has noticed behavior along these lines.

I just installed Suse 9.3 on my athlong 64 system. I have an HP 5550 usb printer. Suse emasculates xine so it can't play anything. I followed Mad Penguins Suse 9.2 advice to fix this, although I did not use apt to install libxine, because apt failed to install the codec. After I had Xine up and running, and able to play some wmv files, my daughter reported that she couldn't print. Sure enough, I couldn't either. I know the printer worked before, because I printed out the Mad Penguin directions.

So, I removed my printer and reconfigured it using Yast. Now I can print, but Xine is funky. It will play, but an mov3 trailer that my daughter downloaded had no sound, I received a "not supported codec" message, and I got the Suse error message. (Along the lines of "due to potential copyright violations, we emasculated Xine.") My wmv files play, but are really funky, and also diplay the messages.

Anybody else have similar problems? I also post this in the Suse forum, in case it is a Suse problem.

hi there

i think u should try with the codecs from the mplayerhq.hu site
install those codecs and they might contain the required codec

regards

Ok, I finally got a chance to use my PC. xine-check said:
xine-check
Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.6.11.4-21.7-default)
[ hint ] Architecture is x86_64 (not intel), assuming there is no MTRR.
control caching mechanisms for special memory ranges. There is
probably nothing like this on x86_64 CPUs...
press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
[ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH
[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib64/xine/plugins/1.0.1 exists.
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
internal error: msg with illegal parms

well i think u should also try compiling the xine package if it is not compiled for ur 64 bit machine

Thanks for the help. I have now tried and failed multiple different ways to get xine to work. I give up. I'll start another thread that doesn't have the CUPS problem. That seems to have gone away.

until u specify what erros u faced we cannot help u ahead

regards