I had problems with xawtv crashing (and freezing the whole system) as soon as I moved the window in anyway at all under gnome. I gave up trying to fix this and recently installed fluxbox. Under fluxbox xawtv seams pretty stable it has only crashed once.

I recently installed xawdecode this crashes (and locks up my system) after a few seconds (even under fluxbox) although I can load it and then close it straight away.

********Startup messages from xawdecode******
[adam@localhost home]$ xawdecode
xawdecode: Symbol `mpeg1video_encoder' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
xawdecode: Symbol `mpeg4_encoder' has different size in shared object, consider
re-linking

This is xawdecode 1.6.7 running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-9).
libxawdecode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
wmhooks: netwm detected
wmhooks: gnome detected
wmhooks: gnome stay on top without _WIN_LAYER
DGA: server=2.0, include=2.0
VidMode: server=2.2, include=2.2
available video mode(s): 800x600 640x480 800x600 400x300
Selected XvImage adaptor with YUY2 support: ATI Radeon Video Overlay on port 69
(grabdisplay)
x11: 800x600, 32 bit/pixel, 3328 byte/scanline
v4l: 800x600, 32 bit/pixel, 3328 byte/scanline
v4l: mmap()'ed buffer size = 0x820000
Checking device palette capabilities: grey hi240 rgb16(565) rgb24 rgb32 rgb15(555) yuv422 yuyv raw yuv422p yuv411p yuv420p yuv410p
****************igain volume = 0x4343
MMX, SSE, AMD MMX extensions, SSE2, have been detected.

********End of start up messages from xawdecode**************


***********************/etc/modules.conf********************
[adam@localhost home]$ cat /etc/modules.conf
#bbtv
options bttv radio=5 card=78
#pll=1triton1=1
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias char-major-81 bttv
#sound
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias /dev/ttySHSF* hsfserial
alias char-major-240 hsfserial
alias /dev/ttyCUA* hsfserial
alias char-major-241 hsfserial
alias /dev/modem hsfserial
options hsfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241
alias /dev/ttySHSF* hsfserial
alias /dev/ttyCUA* hsfserial
*********End of modules.conf***********************

Any other info you require just tell me what you need to know... I would really like to get xawdecode working on my system!

Adam

I figured out what my problem was... I had selected the wrong tuner in /etc/modules.conf

For all those people out there who are having problems with xawtv crashing their linux check your tuner... I wish someone had told me before but it took me a month to figure this out! Maby I am just slow.

Adam