I just installed xine via rpm from www.freshrpms.net Went to www.mplayerhq.hu and got myself the essentials codecs packages extracted it to /usr/lib/win32 as per instructions on www.xinehq.de

I can't seem to play .mp3's or .ogg file formats, but I am able to play .avi, .wmv, .mov, etc etc.

Any ideas why I can't play these *simple* audio formats, but I can play the videos (btw the videos do have sound, and I can hear it)

The .ogg files and .mp3 files I have play for approx. half a second and I can hear them through my speakers but then XINE quits, no error no nothing.

The only hint I can possibly provide is that at the top of XINE when it starts is a "There is no MRL." error, I have no idea what this means though.

I am using Fedora Core 3.

Thanks in advance.

when you say that you got the 'essential codecs,' i'm assuming that you got the corresponding mp3 and ogg codecs??

Well, I don't see it there. I think xine can play ogg at least by default (it is a free format), so I don't think it is a codec problem. Also,. I have been doing some testing on my own and if I run xine from the command line and specify a playlist, the same songs that were not playing, now play! I don't understand.

Also, while I've got someone's attention..is there a way tp supress both portions of the GUI for xine. I ask because I want to run a cron job that will play a playlist in the morning to wake me up. I have tried passing -I -H -IH -gH --hidegui -H, but I can only supress either the video window or the main panel..not both If the GUI isn't disabled the cron job doesn't run

no suggestions :-(

Whayt version of xine are you using and where did you get it from. Try uninstalling xine and xine-lib and try out the packages from the xine nightly builds page.

Using xine 1.0.0-1. I received the rpms from www.freshrpms.net Also I am using XFCE4 if that matters...don't think it does...

Did you try uninstalling and using the packages from the link I posted above. That way you will know whether it's a problem with your package or if it's something else. To play ogg files, you must have libogg and libvorbis.

in FC there´s no mp3 support (license).
you can play mp3´s with xmms and xmms-mp3 rpm´s installed

I know there is no MP3 support in FC. Xine does not come with FC so there should be no conflict with FC. Xine has the MP3 support builtin.

Hi, i am haveing exactly the same problem

I am also using Fedora Core 3

Also i think it is something in the XINE UI file because it worked fine in 0.99.2