Xine :Hangs!
 

I use a Mandrake 10 Linux.
Version of my xine is 0.9.23.

With audio files it works just fine.
When I play a video on it with it's GUI on it works fine. But when played with GUI visibility off, here is what happened with me:

Video was playing fine in fullscreen mode. I double clicked on the screen and after a few miliseconds it gave a full blue screen with sound coming and stopping. After a few seconds sound too went off. I was left with a full blue screen and a "wait" substitute of cursor( aka Sandclock-I m sorry i don't know a proper term for it). I waited patiently but nothing happened.

Nothing works here neither Ctrl+Esc nor Alt+F3 nor Ctrl+C nor Ctrl+Z
(video was playing in full screan mode so of course no task bar)

This is not the first time i m facing such a problem.

If you have any clue or any kind of help i'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

maybe this will help u

http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#BLUESCREEN

also try reducing your screen depth
what it is right now?? 24 or 16

regards

Thanks for this much quck reply.

I m going to have dinner right now so i'd be sorry to not reply you with my visit on the recommended link.

But i couldn'd understand by this:
24 or 16

Again thanks.

what is the depth of ur system

24 bits or 16 bits

check ur /etc/X11/XF86config or xorg.conf file

see what is ur default depth

if it is 24 , then making 24 to 16 will help u

regards

I cheked my default depth it was 16 only.

I aslo have gone to the given site and did what was recomended over there neither of them were helpful.

I already have said that it comes only while GUI visibility is off.

is here any other way?
Thank you manand anyway.

i do not underertand what do u mean by

"while GUI visibility is off."

regards

When you right click on xine it gives you a list of menu.
First of them is GUI visibility.
clicking this options actually toggles the player's hardware GUI visibility (I meant a rectangular small box in which options of Play, Pause, Play Next Stream, Increase/decrease volume , Time Display...etc. are there).

hi there

ok i got it ,earleir there was this option of GUI visibilty whch is now changed to "show controls?"

what u can ry is

run xine in console and then u can see ny error messages that come up while xine hangs
also looks to me that you should consider building xine from source if u are faicng so many problems

get the latest xine-lib and for frontend use kaffeine

regards

As i already have told that Xine gives problem only when it is running/made to /attemped to run in full screen mode.
When I play in full screen mode through console, after it hangs, I m not able to get console because the whole sreen goes blue after hanging (even after running console in "Keep above others" setting).
What only i can do is restart my computer. After restarting I am not getting the eror mesage supposedly produced in console.
What I am doing is uninstalling Xine first and then install it .I shall inform you results of this later.

But icouldn't understand by :

"and for frontend use kaffeine"

what is kaffeine.
I am having my end term exams right now, thats why i am sorry to reply u much late inspite of your quick reply.

Thank you very much.

no problem even if u reply late

well xine is in 2 parts

xine-lib:the backend

xine-ui:frontend

u need the backend ,but u can choose from frotend
kaffeine is one frontend
u can keep bot frontends as well

http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/

BTW, my exams are also going on but i love hanging out here

regards

Thanks a lot for your quick reply inspite of your exams.

I m sorry to say that I, right now am not able to use my computer and i m out of station. I will not be able to acess my comp before July 18th or so .

After getting to Kharagpur i'd reply you.

Thanks once more.

no problem

maybe u will like to take this problem in your new session

enjoy ur holidays

regards

Hi there!

I am back here in Kharagpur and have uninstalled xine as soon as i got here.
But My original CDs are missing; can i install Xine from ISO files?

If yes; How?

Thanks for your every attention to my problems (I know they are sophisticated and boring!!).

do u want to install xine from the mandrake CDs or the dump of mandrake Cds as ISO files that u have

regards

In my LAN, I m easily getting ISO images of all the 5 CDs of Mandrake 10.
I can download those ISO files to my hard disk.

My problem is:
Even if I have ISO image of Mandrake 10, can I install xine from those ISO files which are saved on my hard disk??

Thanks in advance.